Vilmos Kondor - Budapest Noir

About the Author

VILMOS KONDOR graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris with a degree in chemical engineering before returning home to Hungary. He lives with his wife, daughters, and dog in a quiet village near the Austrian border and teaches high school mathematics and physics. Budapest Noir is his first novel.

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Credits

Cover design by Milan Bozic

Cover photographs © Steven J Gelberg/Trevillion Images; Martin Child/Getty Images; Yuri Arcurs/Shutterstock Images

Copyright

First published in Hungary as Budapest Noir in 2008 by Agave Könyvek Kft, Budapest. Reprinted by permission of Agave Könyvek.

BUDAPEST NOIR. Copyright © 2012 by Vilmos Kondor. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

EPub Edition FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN: 9780062098825

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kondor, Vilmos

[Budapest noir. English]

Budapest noir : a novel / Vilmos Kondor ; translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-185939-7 (pbk.)

1. Budapest (Hungary)—Fiction. 2. Hungary—History—1918-1945—Fiction. I. Title.

PH3382.21.O555B8313 2012

894’.51134—dc23

2011028809

12 13 14 15 16 ov/rrd 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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