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The Orient Express has embarked from Ostend for a three-day journey to Cologne, Vienna, and Constantinople. The passenger list includes a Jewish trader from London with business interests in Turkey-and a score to settle; a vulnerable chorus girl on her last legs; a boozy and spiteful journalist who's found an unrequited love in her paid companion, and her latest scoop in second class-a Serbian dissident in disguise on his way to lead a revolution; and a murderer on the run looking for a getaway. As the train hurtles across Europe, the fates of everyone on board will collide long before the Orient Express rushes headlong to its final destination.
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"A tour de force... The realist and romantic struggle with each other in this book, making it kind of a mental battlefield, inducing a sense of breathlessness and urgency. It is a very remarkable piece of work, splendidly written, exciting, disturbing."
L. P. Hartley
"One of the most exciting ad successful novels of its type that I have read."
The Saturday Review of Literature
"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists, rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings... A master of storytelling."
V. S. Pritchett, The Times (London)