Not bad, just not great.Butler is given to excess, he over uses cultural objects as stand-ins for time, place, and atmosphere, and Cobb as tough guy can be too much - but man is the book fun. I'm really liking this series. World War I has begun and Kit Cobb is on the Lusitania. We were first introduced to Kit in The Hot Country and we will surely see him again as part of a trilogy of thrillers. “In light of the German threats and this being a British liner, are you afraid to be traveling on the “Exhilarating. We offer dine-in, take-out, catering and on-line ordering services. Welcome back. I felt like I was watching a classic movie from the golden age of cinema telling a lost story of World War I.
Implausible plot again from a potentially otherwise decent writer. And parts are nicely writ. and things proceed murkily from there. One of those spy/mystery novels that just so happen to take place at an auspicious moment in history, this time the sinking of the Lusitania and the imminence of WW I. Olen seems to me to be a frustrated man of letters, because there are many allusions to Shakespeare and other literary works. And given that the author won a Pulitzer Prize for a short story collection in 1993, one might hope for some literary heft behind the tale. This is the second of the Cobb books in the series, and the second I have read. . The main character, war correspondent-turned-spy Kit Cobb, is too much of a macho throwback and one of the big “surprises” was too predictable for my taste. Refresh and try again. Just when you think you have it figured out the story turns ever so subtlety to surprise you. The main character, war correspondent-turned-spy Kit Cobb, is too much of a macho throwback and one of the big “surprises” was too predictable for my taste. Loved it. I also failed to develop any real interest in the romance between Cobb and Selene - I also didn't believe that someone as practical and worldly as Cobb is supposed to be would fall for someone as moody, evasive, and dramatic as she is written. The author is excellent at setting the stage and allowing his characters to inhabit it fully. a ripping good yarn.” —Tom Nolan, The second book in Robert Olen Butler’s Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, “Butler’s description of the sinking of the “Pulitzer Prize-winning Butler successfully changed pace by launching a thriller series.” —I made another step to the side and another and I could see her again, in profile now, her long, straight nose beautifully at odds with the usual standards of beauty of this age. . Now Butler raises the stakes with The Star of Istanbul, in which Cobb crosses paths with a sultry and mysterious actress hiding a secret agenda that may be the key to saving—or toppling—two empires. Intrepid Chicago war-correspondent Kit Cobb, fresh from his exploits in Mexico, has been called upon by the US Government to act as a spy against the Germans in Europe, before the US has entered WWI. (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller #2) Decades were to pass before the American government would establish an agency to conduct foreign intelligence. Then, after reading Pynchon's Bleeding Edge (Challenging and I loved it), I gave my brain a rest and read Olen's The Star of Istanbul.

Still, I'm a sucker for a spy novel and there are a lot of elements and vignettes that work well in the novel even if it doesn't entirely satisfy. At the end I was just sorry I had wasted so much time to get to the end and the resolution of the plot, but... It is, IMHO better than the first Cobb book, and will have me reading the second.Abandoned this book after making very little progress. I thought: I bet her feet are large too and her hands and she is all the more beautiful for defying this world’s conventions in these details.
Couldn’t put it down. Brauer is a professor of what were then called "Oriental studies" in London. Look forward to being in love for a long time.The Star of Istanbul is Christopher “Kit” Marlowe Cobb’s second adventure from Pulitzer Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler. First and foremost, there is far too little of Istanbul in a book called "The Star of Istanbul," and what little there is fails to invoke any sense of the exoticism, mystery, or majesty that is promised by the title. I think we can figure out which trip. . Good if you like spy novels. Especially the intimate pispy startedout on the Lusatania then went to London then Istanbul following Armenian actressA spy story that involves romance and derring-do on the ill-fated Lusitania in 1915, a trip on the Orient Express, and a dangerous quest to foil the German schemes with the Turks in Constantinople would seem to have the necessary ingredients for a fascinating and entertaining read. First and foremost, there is far too little of Istanbul in a book called "The Star of Istanbul," and what little there is fails to inv . That only happened in 1942 with the founding of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). . I received The Star of Istanbul as a free giveaway on Goodreads. An Independent Literary Publisher Since 1917“Nothing short of amazing. . The mystery is enriched by the real sweep of history as WWI takes hold, from U-boats in the Atlantic to massacres in Armenia, and an excellent description of the BOOK REVIEW: 'The Star of Istanbul': Continuing the Saga of Kit Cobb: Foreign Correspondent, Secret Agent ManImplausible plot again from a potentially otherwise decent writer.

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