This fascinating novel is a traditional spy/thriller with an interesting wrinkle - it's set a few decades in the future, after Europe has closed its borders because of a drift to the right compounded by the Xian Flu, which has taken 30 million lives. The continent keeps spawning more "progressively smaller and crazier nation-states." Our protagonist is Rudi, an Estonian chef working in Krakow and recruited to be part of Les Coureurs, a sort of a supra-national messenger service. His travels, travails and adventures take us from Krakow to Silesia to Potsdam, back to Estonia, then to London and finally to a game preserve near the Belarus - Poland border. It's the first book in the Fractured Europe series, of which there are three so far. It's a delightful diverting bit of fun.
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