36 Yalta Boulevard : a novel
/ Olen Steinhauer
- New York : St. Martin's Minotaur , 2005
- 308 p. ; 21 cm
- Yalta Boulevard ; bk. 3 .
As a member of the Ministry for State Security, it is part of Brano Sev's job to do what the authorities ask, no matter what. So when he gets an order to travel to the village of his birth in order to interrogate a potential defector, he goes. When a man turns up dead shortly after he arrives and Brano is framed for the murder, he assumes this is part of the plan and allows it to run its course. But Comrade Brano Sev learns that loyalty to the cause might be the biggest crime of all.