When you are in Paris, you have to make love to somebody. (p.76) This is the twelfth of Alan Furst’s historical espionage novels, all set on continental Europe in the late 1930s or early years of World War Two, in which fairly ordinary European men find themselves caught up in cloak and dagger activities, but […]
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Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst (2010)
The map at the start shows the ‘Balkan escape route 1941’, highlighting the train track from Berlin to Salonika on the Greek coast. So we have a possible subject matter, and date, before we’ve read a word. Like all Furst’s novels the text follows the adventures of one manly man, a good man, in this case […]
Posted by Simon on July 31, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/spies-of-the-balkans-alan-furst/
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst (2008)
Furst has written 14 spy novels set in or around Eastern Europe in the late 1930s when the clouds of war were gathering over the continent. The last seven or so have appeared at nice regular two-year intervals, conform to a nice predictable formula and his readers can look forward to the usual predictable pleasures. […]
Posted by Simon on July 29, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/the-spies-of-warsaw-alan-furst/
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst (2006)
Furst Furst’s novels are all historical spy adventures, set in Continental Europe, often in Eastern Europe or the Balkans, in the dark days before the Second World War and on into the early years of the conflict. They feature fairly ordinary, everyday guys who become reluctantly embroiled in ‘spying’, in its unglamorous, everyday forms – […]
Posted by Simon on July 15, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/the-foreign-correspondent-alan-furst/
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (2004)
Furst has written 14 historical espionage novels, generally set in Eastern Europe, Russia or the Balkans, set towards the end of the 1930s and going on into the early years of the Second World War. This, the eighth in the series, marks a notable change of location by being set, not in the hotels, cafés […]
Posted by Simon on July 13, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/dark-voyage-alan-furst/
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst (2003)
Just outside the railyards of Trieste, the night frozen and black and starless, it turned 1941. The engineer sounded the train whistle, more lost and melancholy than usual, the way Serebin heard it, and Marie-Galante looked at her watch and kissed him. Then they held on to each other for a long time – for […]
Posted by Simon on July 11, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/07/11/blood-of-victory-alan-furst/
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst (2000)
Furst’s sixth novel follows the adventures of Nicholas Morath, an aristocratic Hungarian who has secured a French passport and lives in Furst’s favourite city, Paris, where he has a half share in an advertising company, the Agence Courtmain. His uncle, Count Janos Polanyi de Nemeszvar, also lives a very comfortable life in Paris. In the […]
Posted by Simon on March 30, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/kingdom-of-shadows-alan-furst/
The World at Night by Alan Furst (1996)
In a dark corner, the piano player was hard at work: ‘Mood Indigo’, ‘Body and Soul’, ‘Time On My Hands’. Cocktail hour in Paris – heavy drapes drawn over the windows so the world outside didn’t exist. The bar filled up, the hum of conversation getting louder as the drinks arrived. The expensive whore at […]
Posted by Simon on March 28, 2016
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The Polish Officer by Alan Furst (1995)
Poland, September 1939, a nation being carved in two by the German Wehrmacht invading from the West and Stalin’s Red Army invading from the East. This, Alan Furst’s third novel, follows the adventures of Alexander de Milja (pronounced Mil-ya, p.24), a captain in Polish Military Intelligence, who is among the many Poles who vow to […]
Posted by Simon on March 23, 2016
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/the-polish-officer-alan-furst/
