The Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin

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“<An> elegantly spun yarn . . . Akunin’s wonderful novels are always intricately webbed and plotted.” –The Providence Journal It is 1877, and war has broken out between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In the treacherous atmosphere of a Russian field army, former diplomat and detective... read more

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ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE, woman is a frail and fickle creature, and the great obscurantist and misogynist was right a thousand times over-at least with regard to a certain individual by the name of Varvara Suvorova.

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