Cold Victory, Karl Marlantes
Cold Victory, Karl Marlantes
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Cold Victory
A Novel

Author: Karl Marlantes

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2024

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test.Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and Mikhail, both world-class skiers, drunkenly challenge each other to a friendly—but secret—cross-country wilderness race.This is another masterful novel from the author of the modern classic Matterhorn, whose “breakneck writing style is both passionate and haunting” (W. E. B. Griffin). Layered with fast-paced action, historical detail, and a keen eye for the way totalitarianism and loss of truth and privacy threatens love and friendship, Cold Victory is a triumph.

About Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes graduated from Yale University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, before serving as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. He is the bestselling author of Matterhorn, What It Is Like to Go to War, and Deep River. He lives in rural Washington.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot is an experienced narrator and actor who has appeared in multiple films and television shows. His film and television credits include Risky Business, Beverly Hills Cop, True Romance, and Perfect Strangers. A lover of Greek Revival architecture and soft shell crab, he currently resides in Manhattan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on May 10, 2024

Ever have one of those experiences where a book looks attractive because you've enjoyed at least one prior effort by the author, the subject matter feels like it's right up your alley, the setting is interesting, and the premise suggests it'll be captivating ... and yet.... and yet ... the elements......more

Goodreads review by Kim on January 09, 2024

Now Available: This novel is very different in tone, content, and narrative style than Marlantes' blockbuster hit MATTERHORN, which is *the* definitive guide to what it was really like to be a grunt in the Vietnam War. If you haven't yet read it, I highly recommend it. Our story begins in Finland, no......more

Goodreads review by Ann on January 31, 2024

Mix Karl Marlantes (of Matterhorn/Vietnam fame) and the Cold War, and you get a good story! This novel is set in Helsinki shortly after the end of WWII, when tensions from the war and desires for future domination remained extremely high between/among Finland, Russia and the United States. The main......more

Goodreads review by CAROLYN on April 19, 2024

Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes is war thriller. (Post war) Louise Koski and her husband Arnie are stationed in Finland in 1947. Arnie is a US ambassador and Louise is from a Midwest town. They have been struggling to have a child, having suffered a loss. Balancing etiquette in the powder keg of a pol......more

Goodreads review by Robin on November 10, 2023

Set in Helsinki in 1947 when Finland is torn between the Soviet Union and the other Allied countries. Relations are so strained that the USA doesn't yet have an embassy. Everyone is being watched and no one trusts anyone else. A quick course in diplomacy, and Arnie and Louis Koski are sent to Finlan......more

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“Bronson Pinchot embraces the tone and accents of the international characters in this political thriller…providing a satisfying performance.”

AudioFile

“Marlantes is better than Tom Clancy when it comes to the human element, but he’s similarly fascinated by militaria and historical detail…There’s enough cat and mouse here to keep Cold War thriller buffs engaged.”

Kirkus Reviews

“[A] stirring story of innocents abroad in 1946 Finland as the Cold War is heating up… Marlantes sticks the landing in this satisfying drama.”

Publishers Weekly

“Marlantes’ well-plotted, briskly moving novel explores the psychological afterlife of war. The men may court death on the tundra, but their needs are uncomplicated. It’s the women who, in building cross-cultural bridges and making impossible sacrifices, truly demonstrate sisu (Finnish for ‘toughness in the face of hopelessness’).”

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Awards

  • Amazon Best Book of the Month
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