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COLD VICTORY - KARL MARLANTES GEBUNDEN

AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF THE MONTH    From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes
comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty  friendship  and love are put to the
ultimate test    Helsinki  1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West.
Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya
Bobrova  from Russia  and Louise Koski  from the United States  are young wives of their
country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party  their husbands  Arnie and
Mikhail  both world-class skiers  drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly – but secret –
cross-country wilderness race.    Louise is delighted  but Natalya is worried. Stalin and
Beria’s secret police rule with unforgiving brutality. If news of the race gets out and Mikhail
loses  Natalya knows it would mean his death  her imprisonment  and the loss of her two
children. Meanwhile  Louise  who is childless  uses the race as an opportunity to raise money
for a local orphanage  naïve to the danger it will bring to Natalya and her family. Too late to
stop Louise’s scheme  a horrified Natalya watches as news of the race spreads across the globe
as newspapers and politicians spin it as a symbolic battle: freedom versus communism. Desperate
to undo her mistake  Louise must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail –
but how? The two racers are in a world of their own  unreachable in Finland’s arctic
wilderness.    This is another masterful novel from the author of the modern classic
MatterhornCold Victory is a triumph.

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