The Confession: A Novel: 2 (Yalta Boulevard Quintet 2)

From the author of New York Times bestseller The Tourist The Confession is a fantastic follow-up to Olen Steinhauers brilliant debut The Bridge of Sighs and it guarantees to advance this talented writer on his way to being one of the premiere thriller writers of a generation.. Eastern Europe 1956: Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyeszar who is a proletariat writer in addition to his job as a state militia homicide detective is a man on the brink. Estranged from his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with one of his colleagues and frustrated by writers block Ferencs attention is focused on his job. But his job is growing increasingly political something that makes him profoundly uncomfortable.. When Ferenc is asked to look into the disappearance of a party members wife and learns some unsavory facts about their lives the absurdity of his position as an employee of the state is suddenly exposed. At the same time he and his fellow militia officers are pressed into service policing a popular demonstration in the capital one that Ferenc might rather be participating in. . These two situations coupled with an investigation into the murder of a painter that leads them to a man recently released from the camps brings Ferenc closer to danger than ever before--from himself from his superiors from the capitals shadowy criminal element.