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|title=Turkish Gambit

|author=Boris Akunin

|buy=No

|borrow=Maybe

|pages=288

|publisher=Phoenix mass market p/bk

|isbn=0753819996

}}

I should have had a good look at the back of the book before I bought it, but I'd just discovered Boris Akunin's hero, Erast Fandorin in [[Murder on the Leviathan]] and I was keen to read some more. Leviathan was the second book in the series and I was expecting Turkish Gambit, the third, to follow on where Leviathan had left off, but Turkish Gambit actually predates the events in the earlier book.

If you like novels set around battlefields you may well find the three stars that I've given this book rather ungenerous. It's far from being unreadable and is quite well-plotted. It's just not to my taste.

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