Alan Furst
A Hero of France
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German-occupied Paris, March 10th, 1941. The novel opens with Mathieu, head of a Resistance cell, and through his eyes we see the silent streets ...Read Review
Midnight in Europe
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Readers of Furst’s excellent inter-war espionage novels will find themselves in familiar territory for this one. It is the end of 1937, and ...Read Review
Mission to Paris
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While this novel opens dramatically with a murder in Bulgaria, its settings change rapidly, and finally the protagonist appears on a ship bound ...Read Review
Spies of the Balkans
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This latest piece of Furst’s massive WWII jigsaw puzzle opens in October 1940 in Salonika, Macedonia. “Senior Police Official” Costa Zannis is investigating ...Read Review
The Spies of Warsaw
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This is a difficult to follow but fascinating study of French intelligence-gathering in Central Europe, prior to World War II. Alan Furst is ...Read Review
The Spies at Warsaw
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In the autumn of 1937, Warsaw was still a city at peace, although wary eyes looked to the West with anxiety. Germany was firmly ...Read Review
The Foreign Correspondent
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Carlo Weisz is an Italian émigré living in Paris and working for Reuters, covering the Spanish Civil War during the winter of 1938...Read Review
Blood of Victory
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This latest tale from Furst opens on the Black Sea in November of 1940. Once again a man without a country, this time Russian ...Read Review
Dark Star
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Set in the area between Germany and Russia known as The Pale of Settlement in the years immediately prior to WWII, this spellbinding ...Read Review
Night Soldiers
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Alan Furst’s body of work remains totally focused on Europe between 1933 and 1945. Khristo Stoianev, a Bulgarian peasant, is introduced into the brutality ...Read Review
