Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates
the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
Often compared to Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, Alan Furst is a master of the spy thriller and one of the great war novelists of our time. He is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, and The World at Night. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Show moreBulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates
the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
Often compared to Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, Alan Furst is a master of the spy thriller and one of the great war novelists of our time. He is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, and The World at Night. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Show moreAlan Furst, widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel, is the author of A Hero of France, Midnight in Europe, Mission to Paris, and many other bestsellers. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island.
“A spy novel, a war story, an adventure, a survivor’s tale—Night
Soldiers is all this and more.”
—The Seattle Times
“Night Soldiers has everything the best thrillers offer—excitement,
intrigue, romance—plus grown-up writing, characters that matter,
and a crisp, carefully researched portrait of the period in which
our own postwar world was shaped.”
—USA Today
“Intelligent, ambitious, absorbing . . . The history is deftly
incorporated; the viewpoint civilized; the characters and the
settings picturesque; the adventures exciting; the writing
pungent.”
–Walter Goodman, The New York Times
“Night Soldiers is an atmospheric journey through turbulent lands
at a turbulent time, not so much a thriller as it is a panoramic,
historical adventure.”
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Intelligent and absorbing . . . An unusual viewpoint, solid
research and unobtrusively elegant writing make this pure pleasure
to read.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“Evocative, moving . . . Furst shows a remarkable talent,
integrating details about the cultures of Spain, France and Eastern
Europe with a fascinating story of the constantly changing,
constantly unpredictable events of that world at war.”
–Publishers Weekly
“One of the very best novels ever written about the inner world of
Soviet intelligence. . . . This fine novel, in effect the memoir so
many did not live to write for themselves, is a triumph of
historical imagination.”
–Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets
A young Bulgarian, Khristo, is recruited into an elite unit of the Soviet espionage network. Bloodied and betrayed in the Spanish Civil War, he seeks oblivion in Paris but soon leads fresh sorties, this time against his Red spymasters. As World War II closes in, secret contacts among those who trained together makes it possible for most of them to evade the revenge of their former Russian overlords and eventually find their way to well-deserved refuge. An engaging writer and Esquire contributor, Furst deploys communists, fascists, and American naifs in Europe's theater of war and supports the action and romance with well-researched detail. Barbara Conaty, Library of Congress
"A spy novel, a war story, an adventure, a survivor's tale-Night
Soldiers is all this and more."
-The Seattle Times
"Night Soldiers has everything the best thrillers
offer-excitement, intrigue, romance-plus grown-up writing,
characters that matter, and a crisp, carefully researched portrait
of the period in which our own postwar world was shaped."
-USA Today
"Intelligent, ambitious, absorbing . . . The history is deftly
incorporated; the viewpoint civilized; the characters and the
settings picturesque; the adventures exciting; the writing
pungent."
-Walter Goodman, The New York Times
"Night Soldiers is an atmospheric journey through turbulent
lands at a turbulent time, not so much a thriller as it is a
panoramic, historical adventure."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Intelligent and absorbing . . . An unusual viewpoint, solid
research and unobtrusively elegant writing make this pure pleasure
to read."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Evocative, moving . . . Furst shows a remarkable talent,
integrating details about the cultures of Spain, France and Eastern
Europe with a fascinating story of the constantly changing,
constantly unpredictable events of that world at war."
-Publishers Weekly
"One of the very best novels ever written about the inner world of
Soviet intelligence. . . . This fine novel, in effect the memoir so
many did not live to write for themselves, is a triumph of
historical imagination."
-Thomas Powers, author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets
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