City of Thieves - David Benioff
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As the siege of Leningrad grinds on the frostbitten city faces starvation.
A teenage looter is thrown into a cell with a nonchalant Cossack deserter.
But the pair's schooling as petty thieves earns them an impossible mission.
They can avoid the firing squad providing they find a dozen eggs for a Russian colonel to use for his daughter's wedding cake.
Benioff's buddy story is hotwired with a breakneck plot that hurtles along with rabid intensity.
A big-screen adaptation surely beckons.