Turkish Gambit

Name: Turkish Gambit
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Author: Akunin Boris
ISBN: 9780753819999

SUMMARY: It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The Bulgarian front resounds with the thunder of cavalry charges, the roar of artillery, and the clash of steel on steel during the world’s last great horse–and–cannon conflict. Amid the treacherous atmosphere of a nineteenth–century Russian field army, former diplomat and detective extraordinaire Erast Fandorin finds his most confounding case.It’s difficulties are only compounded by the presence of Varya Suvorova, a deadly serious (and seriously beautiful) woman with revolutionary ideals who has disguised herself as a boy in order to find her respected comrade– and fiancé–Pyotr Yablokov, an army cryptographer. Even after Fandorin saves her life, Varya can hardly bear to thank such a “lackey of the throne” for his efforts.But when Yablokov is accused of espionage and faces imprisonment and execution, Varya must turn to Fandorin to find the real culprit… a mission that forces her to reconsider his c...

Author: Akunin Boris

ISBN: 9780753819999

Collection: Erast Fandorin

Translator: Bromfield Andrew

Genre: Historical detective

Number of pages: 229

Reading time: 3 h. 49 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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