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A Hero in France by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war. Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work. The fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageou ...Show more
A Hero in France by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Spring, 1941. Britain is losing the war. Paris is occupied by the Nazis, dark and silent at night. But when the clouds part, and moonlight floods the city, a Resistance leader called Mathieu steps out to begin his work. The fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageou ...Show more
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
November, 1940. I.A. Serebin, a writer from Odessa and former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union, an emigre organisation based in Paris, he is drawn into a ...Show more
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Category: unmapped
Utterly gripping spy thriller set in the glittering world of European high society, just before the Second World November, 1940. I.A. Serebin, a writer from Odessa and former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover.Ostensibly there on ...Show more
Dark Star by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. Andr#65533; Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a f ...Show more
Dark Star by Alan Furst
Category: Fiction
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. Andr Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-tim ...Show more
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst
Category: Fiction
The latest in Alan Furst's superb sequence of wartime espionage thrillers. Tangier, 1941 - for Eric DeHaan, Captain of the Dutch tramp freighter, Noordenam, life at sea has always been his great, but not his only, love affair. Recruited by Dutch Naval Intelligence while in the port of Tangier, DeHaa ...Show more
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus river to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa, flies the flag of neutral Spain, and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo. But she is no ...Show more
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Category: unmapped
Nicholas Morath works in a Paris advertising agency, but he travels on a Hungarian diplomatic passport and, when called upon by his uncle Janos, a powerful and shadowy figure, he begins to undertake missions which draw him into the complex world of 1930s European politics and war.
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Category: Crime and Thrillers
In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.