Boris Akunin
Birth date: May 20, 1956
Boris Akunin's Books
Not bad, but just not for me. I'm not keen on pastiche and this was very ... unoriginal. It felt like a story cobbled together with bits and pieces of other books: Sherlock Holmes, Conrad's The Secret Agent, some Chekhov...and possibly some early James Bond. The writing was consistently good an...
A brilliant historical mystery set in Imperial Russia. If I had done it properly – started not from the book #6- I would have opened my review with “A great start for a very promising historical mystery series with one of the most interesting characters” But I read it unfortunately(or as very oft...
I don't like the international conspiracy theory associated with it, but the book was certainly entertaining.
The Turkish Gambit is the second novel in Russian author Boris Ankunin's series featuring military detective Erast Fandorin. Set in 1877 during the Russian war with the Ottoman Empire, Fandorin must discover the culprit responsible for sabotaging the Russian Army's battle plans even before they can ...
bookshelves: hardback, one-penny-wonder, slavic, winter-20122013, mystery-thriller, series, published-1998, paper-read, tbr-busting-2013, adventure, historical-fiction Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Carey Combe Read from December 03, 2012 to January 10, 2013 Translated by Andrew Bromfield.The Tabl...
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