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Kill the General (Profusion Crime) [Kindle Edition]

Bogdan Hrib (Author), Ramona Mitrica (Translator), Mihai Risnoveanu (Translator), Mike Phillips (Translator)
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An exciting thriller... a good discourse in Romanian history. --Gisela Lehmer, Crime Chronicles

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Stelian Munteanu, lover, killer and Bucharest boy, is a hero who tells us more than we ever imagined about our times. Stelian, a book editor with a sideline in international police work, has to kill a man, a general whose book he’s just published. Will he pull the trigger?

Kill the General is an exciting and suspenseful thriller. It is also a complex and detailed character study of an individual - a roller coaster ride through the transitions which have taken place over the last decades in Romanian history.” (Mike Phillips)

“It’s early. The city is sleeping. I cannot pull the trigger. The time is flying. If I don’t make a decision now... I have no guarantee that the general will still be here the following night. I should get this job done and get the hell out of here!”

BOGDAN HRIB is the author of the Stelian Munteanu series. Kill the General is his first book translated into English.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 442 KB
  • Print Length: 246 pages
  • Publisher: Profusion Books (9 Nov 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B00658N0KI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #42,708 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Exciting Thriller 13 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback
Bogdan Hrib has written an exciting thriller mainly based in Romania. It is the story of a Romanian boy and a good discourse in Romanian history. Stelian Munteanu, 45 years old, a former journalist and now a book editor at Trident Publishing House, tells how he meets the General and what influence he had on his life.
To begin with: The General is very important in Stelian's life because Stelian is about to publish the Generals memoirs called "My Revolution" by Gheorghe Simionescu. Before we get to know more about the General we see Stelian in Chapter One in a Vienna hotel room, just opposite the room where the General lies in his bed sleeping. Stelian's finger is on the trigger of an Austrian gun, a Steyr-Mannlicher SSG 08 and it is aimed at the Generals heart. Stelian is also a gifted shot, "a book editor killing his own author".
Then Stelian tells the story behind the story, and Stelian inhabits the role of a schoolboy, student, his army recruit, where he was when Chernobyl explodes and where he first got in touch with the General. Leaving the army Stelian lives in Bucharest, and from his description of the revolution and of the events in December 1989, the demonstrations, the shootings, Ceausescu's attempt to escape and his shooting on December 25th, we get a tremendous picture of someone not really politically aware. Then Stelian meets the General again. In 2010 he meets the General's daughter and she convinces the General to write his memoirs and Stelian to get the book published. But obviously someone is frightened by the book and wants the General killed. Now it is the time for Stelian to take up his role as a paid assassin.
In the end Stelian can't pull the trigger, he leaves the hotel room and a little later he is arrested by the Austrian police accused of murder. Here part one of the book ends and in part two we follow Stelian's exciting hunt of the man who wanted to have the General killed. It is a breath-taking play among Romanians past and people well-known from Stelian's past adventures like Mikhail Pushkin from former FSB, KGB and maybe M16; Toni Demetriade, police commissar in Bucharest and Steiner, Austrian Chief inspector.
Kill The General is the fourth book in the Stelian Munteanu series and Bogdan Hrib`s first novel translated into English.
It is certain that Bogdan Hrib can write and that his translators Ramona Mitrica, Mike Phillips and Mihai Risnoveanu have done a great job. It would be nice to have Hrib's other books translated, also in German.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By paula h
Format:Paperback
Kill the General is a book that got me hooked from the very start - I am not a great fan of thrillers but the twisting story line and the frank narration style let me discover a character, flawed and virtuous in the same time. The main character, Stelian Muntean, is a book editor who gets entangled into a plot to kill a general with a strange past, and, as it happens Stelian is publishing his memoir of the Revolution.

Having an interest in Eastern European history, I was fascinated by the insights into late 1980s Romania, with a compelling episode featuring the Chernobyl incident as it was seen in one of the most secretive countries in the Eastern Bloc.

The text is lively, the native Romanian and English translators managing to give the text an appealing local flavour that is miles better than any attempt at "localisation" which is sometimes found in other translations.

Peferct for a cold afternoon with a cup of tea.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I just finished reading this book and can only recommend it. Eastern European crime fiction at its finest, with the right quantity of communist memoir, post-EU-adhesion blues and realistically Romanian surreal moments. I can't wait until more books of this author become available as e-books!
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