City of Thieves

✍ Scribed by David Benioff

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2010;2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 161 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.

During the Nazis' brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.

By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the N**ew York Times bestseller City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate...