The release date for the English version of 'City of Thieves' by
David Benioff is May 2008. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Lev Beniov is imprisoned for thieving during the horrific Nazi siege of Leningrad and placed in the same cell with a dashing deserter called Kolya. Lev and Kolya are offered the chance to save their own lives by following a ridiculous order: get twelve eggs for a strong Soviet colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. This is in place of being put to death. Lev and Kolya go out on a quest to locate the impossibly difficult in a city cut off from all supplies and suffering from unimaginable misery. They travel through the extreme anarchy of Leningrad and beyond enemy lines.
City of Thieves is a riveting, dramatic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age narrative with a totally modern sense for how boys become men. It is at turns perceptive and humorous, exciting and horrifying.