Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-) 'Benioff blends humor and horror expertly.' Benioff has produced a funny, sad, and thrilling novel.' The New York Times Book Review 'This spellbinding story perfectly blends tragedy and comedy.' shifts tone with perfect control - no recent novel I have read travels so quickly and surely between registers, from humor to devastation.' Review Quotes 'The novel tells a refreshingly traditional tale, driven by an often ingenious plot. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, the New York Times bestseller City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible.

Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. During the Nazis' brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. About the Book Benioff follows up 'The 25th Hour' with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia.īook Synopsis From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of t he HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival - and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.

A city of thieves