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Alan Furst's Books
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Dark VoyageMay, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa;...Read More -
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The Foreign CorrespondentAn underground newspaper reporter becomes the target of a European spy web in the looming shadow of WWII Paris in this heart-pounding thriller from...Read More
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Spies of the Balkans“Furst’s books are like Chopin’s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their...Read More
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The Spies of WarsawA new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction" -- Houston Chronicle Autumn 1937: War is coming to Europe. French and...Read More
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A Mission to ParisFrom the "modern-day master of the genre" (Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris.Read More
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Authors on the Web
Windsor Patch, January 17, 2012
...available at the Library Lending Desk, one month prior to each meeting. March 26 - Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst Website: http://www.windsorlibrary.com/adult/programs.php Price: $0...
The Australian, January 2, 2012
...list, having devoured Edmund Morris's biographical trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt last year. For Greg Combet, it is Alan Furst's wartime spy novels, to "take my mind well away from work", and Paul Keating's After Words. Bill Shorten plans to pick up John...
The Australian, January 1, 2012
...list, having devoured Edmund Morris's biographical trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt last year. For Greg Combet, it is Alan Furst's wartime spy novels, to "take my mind well away from work", and Paul Keating's After Words. Bill Shorten plans to pick up John...
The Australian, January 1, 2012
...list, having devoured Edmund Morris's biographical trilogy of Theodore Roosevelt last year. For Greg Combet, it is Alan Furst's wartime spy novels, to "take my mind well away from work", and Paul Keating's After Words. Bill Shorten plans to pick up John...
SuperSite for Windows, December 31, 2011
...similar kind of deconstruction of the myths we all believe, in this case about food. Important. Night Soldiersby Alan Furst Classic historical spy thriller that takes place in the days leading up to World War II. Thanks to Jeff for the recommendation....
Tulsa World, December 25, 2011
Tulsa World, December 25, 2011
...America's pre-eminent spy novelist Alan Furst took a course in Victorian literature when he was a sophomore in college and it changed everything. One of the writers he studied in that course was Matthew Arnold...
Conger, October 14, 2011
...whose work I turn to again and again for enjoyment, inspiration and to steal phrases. The American novelist Alan Furst is one of the best. He is a superlative craftsman and storyteller — each re-reading of his work offers new insights into the human...
GetReligion, October 14, 2011
...writer’s responsibility in a progressive society to inform and uplift the toiling masses. From Dark Star by Alan Furst I have my favorites. Writers whose work I turn to again and again for enjoyment, inspiration and to steal phrases. The American...
Kindle Author, October 14, 2011
...Blue), who are popular in Britain but not too well known here, are particularly good in that regard. Alan Furst (Kingdom of Shadows), though an American, has lived abroad and had his early success in Britain as well. Again, I find his characters a little...
Christopher East, September 12, 2011
...After months of considerable control, I finally broke down and read the final Alan Furst novel on my shelf, Spies of the Balkans (2010). Is it more of the same in Furst’s familiar milieu? Yes. Is it still awesome? Absolutely. As...
Kittling: Books, July 30, 2011
...long."Benacquista is known for his black comedy, and I've added this book to my own wishlist.Alan Furst Alan Furst was born and raised in Manhattan, and has lived in the south of France and in Paris. He's written many travel pieces as well as historical...
Kittling: Books, July 30, 2011
...long."Benacquista is known for his black comedy, and I've added this book to my own wishlist.Alan Furst Alan Furst was born and raised in Manhattan, and has lived in the south of France and in Paris. He's written many travel pieces as well as historical...
All articles at Technorati, July 13, 2011
...that surrounds things Islamic today, Macintosh-Smith's book is reassuring and exciting. In The Spies of Warsaw , by Alan Furst, the inadvertent hero of the book is Warsaw, Poland, a fading, elegant dowager of a city, lovely and classy but trapped by the...
