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City of Exiles
Dec 21, 2012

CITY OF EXILES

Author: Alec Nevala-Lee

Signet Mass Market Paperback Original

December 4, 2012

978-0-451-23878-8

Sequel to The Icon Thief

Book Description:
Europe's troubled past and terrifying future collides in the streets and prisons of London—and beyond. This new international thriller hinges on a real historical event, one of the most enigmatic unsolved mysteries in the history of Russia.

Rachel Wolfe, a gifted Mormon FBI agent assigned to a major investigation overseas, discovers that a notorious gun runner has been murdered at his home in London, his body set on fire. When a second victim is found under identical circumstances, the ensuing chase plunges Wolfe and her colleagues into a breathless race across Europe, a secret war between two ruthless intelligence factions, and a hunt for a remorseless killer. At the heart of the mystery lies one of the strangest unsolved incidents in the history of Russia, the unexplained death of nine mountaineers in the Dyatlov Pass in 1959. And at the center of it all stands a figure from Wolfe's past, Ilya Severin, the Russian thief and former assassin known in another life as the Scythian…

Idgie Says:
This a definitive must read for lovers of spy/political/mystery books. It starts off with spies and killers tracking and double-tracking each other, turns into a forensics/murder riddle and then pulls out a historical mystery.

So you have chase scenes, blood, intrigue, mayhem, mystery and procedural police work all in one novel.

Normally I might tout this as a "man's novel" (I know, smack me), but with the lead investigator being a female it adds an additional kick to it that could draw in the female reader that generally might not have interest in this type of story.

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