36 Yalta Boulevard

Expatriate American author Olen Steinhauer's five part Iron Curtain series gets better with every book, every decade he showcases, and every character he focuses on. 36 Yalta Boulevard is no exception. Brano Sev, the enigmatic apparatchik who played supporting roles in The Bridge of Sighs and The Con......more

Just finished blitzing through Olen Steinhauer's 5-book crime & espionage series set in a fictional Soviet-bloc country during the Cold War. Each book is set during a different decade (1940s - 1980s) and revolves around a cast of recurring characters working for the Ministry of State Security. Any r......more

This is the third book in the "Yalta Boulevard" series. The first was outstanding, the second, was, in my opinion less enjoyable. The troubles and intrigues of Eastern Europe can be heavy, draining the joy of reading out from anyone. This third book, redeemed my feelings about this author. I'm looki......more

In this, the third novel in Olen Steinhauer’s outstanding Central European cycle, we view the world through the eyes of Brano Sev, a World War II partisan fighter turned secret policeman in his unnamed Soviet satellite country. Now, nearing 50, Brano has been working for months on the assembly line......more

This is the first novel I have read by Olen Steinhauser, but I plan to read more. His characters are finely drawn and the plot is complicated. This is a very somber, gray work about a current/former? spy for his Eastern European totalitarian government. Although it was interesting and progressed nic......more