by Joseph Kanon
I love Istanbul. It's a remarkable, diverse city, very much of two worlds as it straddles the Bosphorus. Kanon depicts this diversity well, and I appreciate his detail and attention to cultural nuances.There is a brutality to his characterizations that serves his story well.I will read more of his w...
I really wanted to like this book. The cover had great promise, and the Istanbul setting seemed like it would be terrific.Sadly, it just really didn't live up to the promise of either. I spent a lot of time bored. Probably that is what espionage really is - months and years of boredom punctuated b...
This is a tale of post World War II espionage that packs a punch. Even though I wanted to stop reading because of the staccato writing style, the bursts of confusing thought, as if someone was talking, thinking, then speaking again, never quite finishing or expressing the original thought, I kept be...
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