Saint Petersburg, Russia, Winter of 1942. In 2008, Benioffs second novel, City of Thieves, was published. Benioff blends tense adventure, a bittersweet coming-of-age and an oddly touching buddy narrative to craft a smart crowd-pleaser. City of Thieves by David Benioff - review A gripping war novel with lots of humour, suspense and tragedy Readr. David Friedman (/ f r i d m n / born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff (/. 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 higher purpose of the historical fiction genre is to provide readers with a vivid and engaging depiction of a specific time and place in history. The book can be categorized under the genres of war fiction, historical fiction, and coming-of-age fiction. The penalty for this infraction (and many others) is execution. 4/5: 'City of Thieves' by David Benioff is a historical fiction novel set in Leningrad during World War II. Having elected to stay in Leningrad during the siege, 17-year-old Lev Beniov is caught looting a German paratrooper's corpse. 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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