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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...
A Spy Novel set in Russia during the Cold War times interesting but not hugely engaging for me In 1949, Frank Weeks, agent of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- appro...
I've always enjoyed Joseph Kanon's books, which are thrillers set in various places around the world, but all taking place shortly after World War II. Kanon mines that same ground over and over because it's one of the richest veins of material you could ever hope to find. The war has ended, but no...
For those who love spy thrillers stage in the aftermath of WW11 “Leaving Berlin” brings us to 1949 the year of Berlin Airlift, after the roads and railways were closed and the city was partitioned into sectors. You needed to cross checkpoints to travel between East and West Berlin and this if you we...
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