City of Thieves

This book is 272 pages and is written by David Benioff. The narrator is a teenager name Lev who lives in Stalingrad, Russia during world war 2. He is put in Prison after he is caught looting a dead german parachutist. In jail he shares a cell with a deserter named Kolya. Instead of being hanged he and Kolya are sent on a journey for a colonel. Their mission is to retrieve 13 eggs. The eggs are to be used in a wedding cake for the colonel's daughter. This task is difficult because at the time Stalingrad was under Seige by the Germans.
This book was gripping because of the constant action and adventure. The characters were well developed. The plot was interwoven into the real history of World War 2. Some parts can get excessively violent and graphic. I would give this book 5 stars