Victory Square [Import] [Paperback]

Olen Steinhauer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007260865
• ISBN-13: 978-0007260867
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Olen Steinhauer grew up in Virginia, and has since lived in Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Texas, California, Massachusetts, and New York. Outside the US, he's lived in Croatia (when it was called Yugoslavia), the Czech Republic and Italy. He also spent a year in Romania on a Fulbright grant, an experience that helped inspire his first five books. He now lives in Hungary with his wife and daughter.

http://www.olensteinhauer.com

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Concluding Chapter to the Saga, January 28, 2009

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J. L. Utter (Monterey, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victory Square (Paperback)

I hesitated before purchasing this, due to several disappointing reviews. I couldn't diagree with them more. This books wraps it all up in a very moving, evocative way. I was able to place myself in Steinhauer's Iron Curtain country as the wheels came off in the late '80s. The author conveys the sense of disorientation that must have been common to entire generations of people who had lived through those decades.

My only quibble is that the point of view seems to shift from time to time without warning; sometimes in the middle of a paragraph. It's a little strange to switch from 1st person to 3rd and back again so abruptly. I don't know if this was always intentional, or just a lack of thorough editing.

In any case, I found this to be a thoroughly compelling conclusion to a masterful, unique series. Bravo!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Behind the Iron Curtain, August 24, 2009

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Claire Mooers "mystery mad" (Pembroke Pines, Fl. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victory Square (Paperback)

Amazon introduced me to Olen Steinhauer - the idea of police procedurals set in Eastern Europe was intriguing. Beginning with "The Bridge of Sighs" thru all 5 books and ending with "Victory Square", you follow the same characters as their careers progress and their experience widens. Excellent way to be reminded of the history we have lived thru in a part of the world most of have little familiarity with. As with Russian novels, I made NO attempt to try to pronounce any of the names !!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid Thriller; 3.5 Stars, August 1, 2010

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R. Albin (Ann Arbor, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victory Square (Hardcover)

The conclusion of a series of mystery novels set in a fictional Eastern European country. The fictional nation, whose name we never learn, is a synthesis of several central European states. Steinhauer has used a police procedural type approach to explore the history of these states under Communist rule. These books have been generally solid with a cast of recurring characters. This final book is set during the period of collapse of Communist rule. Events in the book are modeled closely on the collapse of the Romanian dictatorship. Steinhauer's plot involves many of the characters of his prior books and reaches back and forth to construct a plot involving events in the prior books. The quality of writing and characterization is solid. The plot is a bit far-fetched but this is probably the best book in this series.