"As befits any book set in Odessa, Sally McGrane's smart new thriller bristles with dark humour, slinking along and zigzagging through its plot like one of the city's streetwise felines. Come for the story, but don't forget to take in the sights." "Great! Tense right up to the final page ... A multi-layered, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down, even at the end." Süddeutsche Zeitung
Sally McGrane is a Berlin-based writer and freelance journalist for The New York Times, the New Yorker magazine, and others. Originally from San Francisco, she has worked as a journalist in Russia and Ukraine. She wrote "Odesa at Dawn", her second spy novel, in Odesa.