Cold Victory

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.

A brisk geopolitical thriller ...The book both honours the struggle for democracy around the world and warns of the dangers of vaingloriousness and naiveté

Marlantes moves from the jungles of Vietnam to the spectral tundra of a very cold Cold War-era Finland. . . . better than Tom Clancy when it comes to the human element, but he's similarly fascinated by militaria and historical detail

Marlantes' well-plotted, briskly moving novel explores the psychological afterlife of war

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

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 valour, 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.