This book is underpinned by amazingly detailed research from which everybody can learn something. The awful European events of the nid-thirties to the mid-forties form a strong background for the main story. The geography across which the hero's life meanders is meticulously described, especially th...
Alan Furst’s World War II espionage novels can sometimes read nothing like novels about spies. Instead they’ll tell of a postcard from a lost friend, signed with an impersonal, intimate X. They’ll contemplate the slow rolling of cigarettes at a Paris café, an untapped telephone under the bar, and ...
Interesting view of the "spy business" circa 1930. How Russia then the URSS recruted young men and a few women from the Eastern European countries to built up their Secret Service. The plot is a bit all over the place, the characters are a bit also all over the place. The main character Khristo is s...
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