Train to Trieste Even Before the Day of

Even Before the Day of the Jackal Created the Archetypal Image of a Professional Hit Man There Had Been No Shortage of Them in Real Life

and a General Darkening and Gathering Pessimism Since the Attacks on New York and Washington Eighteen Months Before

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Train to Trieste Even Before the Day ofIn the Summer of 1977, Seventeen Year Old Mona Manoliu Falls in Love With Mihai, a Mysterious Boy Who Lives in the Romantic Mountain City Where She Spends Her Summers. She Can Think of Nothing and No One Else. but Life Under Nicolae Ceausescu is Difficult. Hunger, Paranoia and Fear Infect Everyone. One Day Mona Sees Mihai Wearing the Black Leather Jacket Favoured by the Secret Police Is It Possible He is One of Them? As Food Shortages Worsen and More