Istanbul Passage offers access to the compromised milieu of a vivid metropolis in its first postwar winter, where everyone is trying to keep balance amid bad choices.” Washington Post “Kanon compounds the fraught postwar mood with a location to match Istanbul Passage is enlivened by intelligent plotting and its vivid evocation of the city itself, a setting rich in centuries of intrigue.”. ISTANBUL PASSAGE. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, . In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst, Istanbul Passage brilliantly illustrates why Edgar Award–winning author Joseph Kanon has been hailed as "the heir apparent to Graham Greene" (The Boston Globe). Istanbul survived the Second World War as a magnet for refugees and spies.4/5().
Istanbul Passage.: Joseph Kanon. Simon and Schuster, - Fiction - pages. 44 Reviews. In the bestselling tradition of espionage novels by John LeCarre and Alan Furst, Istanbul Passage brilliantly illustrates why Edgar Award-winning author Joseph Kanon has been hailed as "the heir apparent to Graham Greene" (The Boston Globe). "Set in Turkey shortly after the Second World War, Istanbul Passage is the latest spy novel by author Joseph Kanon. Early on in the book, an American is killed during a botched secret agent transfer and all sides--Russian, American, Turkish--work hard to figure out exactly who and where the mole is. Joseph Kanon is the Edgar Award-winning author of The Accomplice, Defectors, Leaving Berlin, Istanbul Passage, Los Alamos, The Prodigal Spy, Alibi, Stardust, and The Good German, which was made into a major motion picture starring George Clooney and Cate bltadwin.ru lives in New York City.
Istanbul Passage: A Novel - Kindle edition by Kanon, Joseph. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Istanbul Passage: A Novel. Istanbul Passage offers access to the compromised milieu of a vivid metropolis in its first postwar winter, where everyone is trying to keep balance amid bad choices.” Washington Post “Kanon compounds the fraught postwar mood with a location to match Istanbul Passage is enlivened by intelligent plotting and its vivid evocation of the city itself, a setting rich in centuries of intrigue.”. "Set in Turkey shortly after the Second World War, Istanbul Passage is the latest spy novel by author Joseph Kanon. Early on in the book, an American is killed during a botched secret agent transfer and all sides--Russian, American, Turkish--work hard to figure out exactly who and where the mole is.
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