Eastern European crime series
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2006
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As a member of the Ministry for State Security, it is part of Brano Sev's job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course. But Comrade Brano Sev learns that loyalty to the cause...
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Pub. Date
2006
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In 1975, a People's Militia homicide investigator is on a plane for Istanbul when it is hijacked and then explodes in midair. The two investigators assigned to the case believe that their superiors are keeping them in the dark but don't know why, until they learn that everything is connected to a seven-year-old murder.
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Pub. Date
2007
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Upon reaching the tumultuous 1980s, Olen Steinhauer's literary crime series set in Eastern Europe comes full circle as one of the People's Militia's earliest cases reemerges to torment its inspectors, including militia chief Emil Brod, the original detective on the case. His arrest of a revolutionary leader in the late 1940s resulted in the politician's imprisonment, but at the time Brod was too young to understand how great the cost would be. Only...