Cold Victory

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Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country's military attaches. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly - but secret - cross-country wilderness race.When Louise makes a naive and possibly fatal mistake, she must reach Arnie to tell him to throw the race and save Mikhail from Stalin and Beria's brutal secret police. But the two skiers are in a world of their own, unreachable in Finland's arctic wilderness. Another masterful novel from the author of the modern classic Matterhorn, Cold Victory is a triumph.

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A brisk geopolitical thriller...The book both honours the struggle for democracy around the world and warns of the dangers of vaingloriousness and naivet * Washington Post *
Marlantes moves from the jungles of Vietnam to the spectral tundra of a very cold Cold War-era Finland. . . . better than Tom Clancy when it comes to the human element, but he's similarly fascinated by militaria and historical detail * Kirkus Reviews *
Marlantes' well-plotted, briskly moving novel explores the psychological afterlife of war * Booklist *
[A] stirring story of innocents abroad in 1946 Finland as the Cold War is heating up... Marlantes sticks the landing in this satisfying drama * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Karl Marlantes graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valour, two Purple Hearts and ten air medals. He is the bestselling author of Matterhorn, What It Is Like to Go to War and Deep River. He lives in rural Washington.