City of Thieves

David Benioff

From the writer of the award-winning Game of Thrones series for HBO based on the books of George R. R. Martin.

'David Benioff is an exceptional storyteller . . . CITY OF THIEVES is tender illuminating and be warned often shocking.' Khaled Hosseini

Four months into the siege of Leningrad the city is starving. Seventeen-year-old Lev fears for his life when he is arrested for looting the body of a dead German paratrooper while his charismatic cellmate Kolya a handsome young soldier arrested for desertion seems bizarrely unafraid.

Dawn brings instead of an execution squad an impossible challenge. Lev and Kolya can find a dozen eggs for an NKVD colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake and live. Or fail and die.

In the depths of the coldest winter in history through a city cut off from all supplies and suffering appalling deprivation man and boy embark on an absurd hunt. Their search will take them through desolate lawless Leningrad and the devastated countryside surrounding it in the captivating journey of two men trying to survive against desperate odds.

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