City of Secrets Audiobook

Quotes

• “Finely wrought and morally complex, O’Nan’s considerable story-telling powers are masterfully deployed here.”

  — Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

• “Will keep you up all night reading—what a beautifully crafted novel.”

  — Alan Furst, New York Times bestselling author

• “O’Nan takes his mastery of language and depth of character in a fresh direction: a richly nuanced suspense novel.”

  — Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author

• “O’Nan is dealing with big history here and handling it deftly, but he never loses his center.”

  — Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author

• “A little jewel, ­wonderfully sparse, moody and uneasy, reminiscent of the delicious, frayed-­collar noir of le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold…You can smell the squally desert wind that bends the cypress trees on the Jerusalem hills but never brings the rain. City of Secrets makes for great summer reading.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “[An] atmospheric thriller…may be one of O’Nan’s best. Its strength lies in his ability, as always, to take us inside the minds and souls of characters, real or imagined…O’Nan, writing of the past as he evokes the present, reminds us terrorism is as old as it is new.”

  — Chicago Tribune

• “A fine piece of storytelling…in the exotic historic mode of Graham Greene, with the drier and grittier tone of Raymond Chandler…The moral struggle in City of Secrets is timeless and international.”

  — Boston Globe

• “Takes a clear-eyed and unsentimental look at an astonishing slice of history—one that is strikingly echoed by the heartbreaking events still unfolding in the Middle East.”

  — Seattle Times

• ”A search for love and justice after the Holocaust…[and] quest for something worth believing in…Worth applauding, too, is Mr. O Nan’s ability to realize a complex female character in Eva.”

  — Pittsburgh Post Gazette

• “A fast-moving story that brings fresh perspective to a moment of historical significance.”

  — St. Louis Post Dispatch

• “[With] thriller-like suspense…O’Nan’s engrossing portrait of an innocent caught in the web of history cues us to view today’s horrific Middle East struggles with compassion.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “A probing, keening thriller…Though rigorously unsentimental, the text seethes with unresolved emotions…The complex moral issues it raises linger unsettlingly.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

• “O’Nan’s intriguing new novel…works on several levels, but it is especially memorable as a story where the tortured emotions of its characters are indistinguishable from the turmoil of the chaotic events that overwhelm them.”

  — Publishers Weekly