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The second book in the acclaimed series has all the literary merit, irony, wit, historical accuracy, and telling detail lovers of Biggins expect. Set in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the days preceding WWI. This is the first paperback American edition, eagerly awaited by fans.
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This book follows the hapless Lieutenant Otto Prohaska in the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and finds Otto taking an ill-considered break from duties to engage in a mad fling with a Polish actress. After a desperate attempt to elude his lover's husband, he finds himself mistaken by anarchists as one of their own. Otto soon masters their code names and secret handshakes, but when he also learns of their plans to assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, his duty is clear. He must alert his superiors'now, if only he can find someone who will believe him!
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