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The Turkish gambit : a novel / Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Van Pelt Library PG3478.K78 T8713 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Akunin, B. (Boris)
- Standardized Title:
- Turet͡skiĭ gambit. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878--Fiction.
- Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2005]
- Summary:
- It is 1877, one year after Erast Fandorin's adventures in The Winter Queen, and our brilliant young sleuth now finds himself in the middle of a war raging between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. At the Bulgarian front, amid the thunder of cavalry charges, the roar of artillery, and the clash of steel on steel, Fandorin crosses paths with Varya, a daring Russian woman who risks her life to join her fiance, a decoder in the Russian army who has been wrongfully accused of espionage. Will Fandorin be able to clear Varya's lover of these charges and find the true culprit responsible for manipulating the encoded messages? Only the success of the siege of Plevna and the outcome of the war hang in the balance.
- ISBN:
- 1400060508
- OCLC:
- 57893032
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