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Not long ago I began reading David Benioff's ''City of Thieves.'' The novel had come highly recommended to me by several friends, and as I had already seen Spike Lee's excellent film ''25th Hour,'' which is based on Benioff's first novel, I was really looking forward to reading the book. ''City of Thieves,'' set during the Nazi siege of Leningrad, is about a Russian teenager who will be shot by Stalin's police unless he tracks down a dozen eggs to be used in baking a wedding cake for a colonel's daughter. Since cannibalism has already broken out in the city, eggs are clearly going to be hard to come by. So, as I opened to the first page, I was primed for a rip-roaring adventure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
