
How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe & Asia, Istanbul survived WW2 as a magnet for refugees & spies, trafficking in secrets & lies rather than soldiers. Expatriate American businessman Leon Bauer was drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs & courier runs in support of the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up & an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of postwar life, Leon is given one last routine assignment. But when the job goes fatally wrong
- an exchange of gunfire, a body left in the street, & a potential war criminal in his hands
- Leon is plunged into a nightmarish tangle of intrigue, shifting loyalties & moral uncertainty. Rich with atmosphere & period detail, Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War, of an unexpected love affair, & of a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.