{"product_id":"blood-of-victory","title":"Blood of Victory","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - \"[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre-World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Janet Maslin, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil--a last desperate attempt to block Hitler's conquest of Europe. Serebin's race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black Sea, Beirut, and, finally, Belgrade; his task is to attack the oil barges that fuel German tanks and airplanes. \u003ci\u003eBlood of Victory\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel with the heart-pounding suspense, extraordinary historical accuracy, and narrative immediacy we have come to expect from Alan Furst. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlood of Victory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Densely atmospheric and genuinely romantic, the novel is most reminiscent of the Hollywood films of the forties, when moral choices were rendered not in black-and-white but in smoky shades of gray.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Furst's achievement is a moral one, producing a powerful testament to fiction's ability to re-create the experience of others, and why it is so deeply important to do so.\"\u003cb\u003e --Neil Gordon, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Richly atmospheric and satisfying.\" \u003cb\u003e--Deirdre Donahue, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67550476206312,"sku":"9780812968729","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_1ebaebc9-048b-4e53-8fc0-ebe5738c9e20.jpg?v=1790376070","url":"https:\/\/shop.kuumba.app\/products\/blood-of-victory","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}