?Not Le Carre, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytellling that established A Coffin for Dimitrios as the best of its kind.?? --The Times (London
A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars. Hoping that the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in an Istanbul morgue, will inspire a plot for his next novel, Latimer soon finds himself caught up in a shadowy web of assassination, espionage, drugs, and treachery.
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