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Midnight In Europe
''Midnight in Europe'' is the thirteenth novel in Alan Furst's Night Soldiers series of espionage thrillers. It was published in 2014 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in the UK and in the US by Random House. Plot The novel is set between December 1937 and September 1938 and features the lawyer Cristián Ferrar, who works for a firm based in Paris but with a New York partner. Of Catalan origin, his family moved to France in 1909 but did not seek naturalization. Now, supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, Ferrar agrees to help procure arms for the Government side in the face of the non-interventionist policy of the democratic nations and links up with Max de Lyon of the Spanish Embassy's Oficina Técnica. Their first mission is to obtain anti-tank guns from the Škoda Works in the Czechoslovak Republic, which involves an initial trip to Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Furst
Alan Furst (; born 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. Biography Furst was born in New York City, and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. His family has ancestors in Poland, Latvia, and Russia. His great-grandfather was drafted into the Russian army, and, as a Jew, was required to serve 20 years. He attended the Horace Mann School, received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962, and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. While attending general studies courses at Columbia University, he became acquainted with Margaret Mead, for whom he later worked. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |