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Conspirators
Overview
"Beautifully written, intricate and entrancing."--Jaroslaw Anders, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk: a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants, and a young novelist and playwright, newly arrived in the Vienna of Franz Josef and Freud, hungry for literary success.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780312424374
- ISBN-10: 031242437X
- Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
- Publish Date: April 2005
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.45 pounds
- Page Count: 506
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