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District VIII

by Adam LeBor

RomaniesMurderPoliceInvestigationPolitical corruption
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"Life's tough for a Gypsy detective in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you're a cop. The dead, however, don't care. So when Balthazar Kovacs, a detective in the city's murder squad, gets a mysterious text message on his phone, he gulps down his coffee and goes to work. The message has two parts: a photograph and an address. The photograph shows a man, in his early thirties, lying on his back with his eyes open, half-covered by a blue plastic sheet. The address is 26 Republic Square, the former Communist Party headquarters, and once the most feared building in the country. But when Kovacs arrives at Republic Square, the body is gone..."--

Themes & subjects

RomaniesMurderPoliceInvestigationPolitical corruptionPrejudices

Setting

HungaryBudapestBudapest (Hungary)

Author

Adam LeBor

Pages

400

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

5

Language

English

Publisher

Head of Zeus

ISBN

9781786692702

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