Conspirators

Beautifully written, intricate and entrancing.--Jaroslaw Anders, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered, the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster, Jakob Tausk: a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond, enlisting union organizers, financiers, aristocrats and their servants, and a young novelist and playwright, newly arrived in the Vienna of Franz Josef and Freud, hungry for literary success.

Author: Michael André Bernstein
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/01/2005
Pages: 506
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780312424374

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/24/2005 pg. 28

About the Author

Michael André Bernstein is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Republic. He is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.

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