36 Yalta Boulevard

From Olen Steinhauer author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist The Man from Yalta Boulevard is a tour-de-force political thriller.Olen Steinhauer''s acclaimed first two novels The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession have garnered thus far an Edgar nomination an Anthony nomination a Macavity nomination a Historical Dagger nomination and five starred reviews. Now he takes this superb literary series set in a nameless Eastern European country into the 1960s.State Security Officer Brano Sev is the secretive member of the homicide department of the capital''s people''s militia. No one else quite trusts him but it is part of his job to do what the authorities ask no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course. But when the plan leads him into exile in Vienna he finally begins to ask questions fact Comrade Brano Sev learns that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all.