Sydney: Rain Shower 23ºC | 19ºC

or use

City of Thieves - David Benioff

City of Thieves - David Benioff

First published on 2 Jul 2008. Updated on 7 Jul 2008.

As the siege of Leningrad grinds on the frostbitten city faces starvation.

A teenage looter is thrown into a cell with a nonchalant Cossack deserter.

But the pair's schooling as petty thieves earns them an impossible mission.

They can avoid the firing squad providing they find a dozen eggs for a Russian colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake.

Benioff's buddy story is hotwired with a breakneck plot that hurtles along with rabid intensity.

A big-screen adaptation surely beckons.

More book reviews and literary events in Sydney? Sign up to our weekly newsletter

By Time Out Sydney editors

Print
Email

Readers' comments

Community guidelines

blog comments powered by Disqus

© 2007 - 2012 Time Out Group Ltd. All rights reserved. All material on this site is © Time Out.