Boris Akunin is the pen-name of the Georgian author, Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, the former editor of a literary magazine who is now a full-time writer of fiction. Amongst the latter are fourteen novels and novellas that feature Erast Fandorin.
I have just finished reading the second books in the series, THE TURKISH GAMBIT.
It is a spy mystery set during the Siege of Plevna, and the story follows Erast Fandorin's efforts to counter the damage being done to the Russian war effort by a well-disguised Turkish spy, Anwar Efendi. In the process of unmasking the spy, Fandorin helps to capture Plevna and end the war.
I read this when it was first published ... and I had forgotten just how excellent a book it is.
I am now thinking about looking for my copy of the DVD of the film of the book made by a Russian production company, Studio TriTe. My DVD is dubbed into German and has English subtitles ... so it requires one's full concentration to watch it! I think that it is in our offsite storage unit, so I'll make a special point to hunt it down the next time I visit it.
THE TURKISH GAMBIT was written by Boris Akunin and the English language paperback was published in 2010 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson (ISBN 978 0 7538 1999 9).
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