Citizen Orlov / Jonathan Payne.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Brentwood, Tennessee : CamCat Books, 2023Description: 272 pages ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780744309010
- 0744309018
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Main Library | Fiction | In Case You Missed It | PAYNE, JONATHAN | ICYMI - Recently New | Available | 33111011289986 |
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A 2024 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Medal Winner
"[An] enjoyable comic fable . . ." -- Wall Street Journal
"This auspicious debut announces a bright new voice in comic suspense." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent.
Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who answers a phone call meant for a secret agent and stumbles into a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. Recruited by the Ministry of Security, he is sent on assignment to safeguard the king.
But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring femme fatale Agent Zelle, is planning not to protect the king but to assassinate him. Caught in a web of plot and counterplot, confusing loyalties, and explosive betrayals, Orlov finds himself on trial for murder. Given the opportunity to clear his name, he finds that the lives of his friends, mother, and fellow citizens hang in the balance.
Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent. Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who stumbles into the Ministry of Security, and consequently a hidden world of espionage and secrecy. His first assignment? To safeguard the King when he visits the scenic town of Kufzig. But Orlov soon discovers that his ministry handler, the alluring but-couldn't-possibly-be-a-femme-fatale Agent Zelle, is planning not to protect the King but to assassinate him. Caught in a web of plot and counterplot, confusing loyalties, and explosive betrayals, Orlov finds himself on trial for murder. He has an opportunity to clear his name--but with his friends, mother, and fellow citizens' lives in the balance, freedom comes at a high cost.