false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182206894m/1244051.jpg 1244051 4 <div><div>The revolutionary politics and chaotic history of life inside Olen Steinhauer&#8217;s fictionalized Eastern European country have made his literary crime series, with its two Edgar Award nominations along with other critical acclaim, one of today&#8217;s most acclaimed. Finally having reached the tumultuous 1980s, the series comes full circle as one of the earliest cases of the People&#8217;s Militia reemerges to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now the chief, who was the original detective on the case. His arrest of one of the country&#8217;s revolutionary leaders in the late 1940s resulted in the politician&#8217;s conviction and imprisonment, but Emil was too young in those days to understand what it meant to go up against someone so powerful&#8212;and win. Only now, in 1989, when he is days from retirement and spends more time looking over his shoulder than ahead, does he realize that what he did may get him&#8212;and others&#8212;killed. <br></div><div> </div><div>Told against the backdrop of the crumbling forty-year-old government&#8212;with the leaders who were so new in the series debut, <i>The Bridge of Sighs</i>&#8212;<i>Victory Square</i><i> </i>is Steinhauer at his best. Once again he masterfully makes crime fiction both personal and political, combining a story of revenge at any cost with a portrait of a country on the brink of collapse.</div></div> 1232757 21 8 2007 Victory Square total:17|5:2|4:8|3:5|2:2|1:0| 17 61 32 6 2636402 0312374860 9780312374860 2 1 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255808424m/2636402.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2636402.Victory_Square 3 0 false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 18:47:18 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 18:57:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1244051 0312369719 9780312369712 15 5 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182206894m/1244051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1244051.Victory_Square 5 0 false Tue Jan 06 03:29:01 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 05:20:18 -0800 2009 1244051 0312369719 9780312369712 15 5 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182206894m/1244051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1244051.Victory_Square 4 0 false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Oct 18 15:32:01 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 10:11:52 -0800 2009 1244051 0312369719 9780312369712 15 5 3.59 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182206894m/1244051.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1244051.Victory_Square 4 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 15:10:46 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 12:23:36 -0700 2007
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