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City of Thieves by David Benioff6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser. A wry and sympathetic observer of the devastation around him, Lev is an engaging and self-deprecating narrator who finds unexpected reserves of courage at the crucial moment and forms an unlikely friendship with Kolya, a flamboyant ladies' man who is coolly reckless in the face of danger. There, Lev and Kolya take on an even more daring objective: to kill the commander of the local occupying German forces. Their mission exposes them to the most ghoulish acts of the starved populace and takes them behind enemy lines to the Russian countryside. But when Colonel Grechko confronts Lev and Kolya, a Russian army deserter also facing execution, he spares them on the condition that they acquire a dozen eggs for the colonel's daughter's wedding cake. The penalty for this infraction (and many others) is execution. ![]() He held several odd jobs after graduation including a club bouncer in San Francisco and a high school English teacher and wrestling coach in Brooklyn, NY. He attended The Collegiate School and Dartmouth College, graduating in 1992. His family is Jewish and he is the youngest of three children. Having elected to stay in Leningrad during the siege, 17-year-old Lev Beniov is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse. David Benioff was born and raised in New York City. With this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving WWII in Russia. Author and screenwriter Benioff follows up The 25th Hour ![]()
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