Midnight in Europe - Softcover

Furst, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812981839 ISBN 13: 9780812981834

Publisher: Random House Trade, 2015

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called "the most talented espionage novelist of our generation," now gives us a taut, suspenseful, romantic, and richly rendered novel of spies and secret operatives in Paris and New York, in Warsaw and Odessa, on the eve of World War II.

Cristián Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish émigré, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic's beleaguered army--an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism.

Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies. From shady Paris nightclubs to white-shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies battle the secret agents of Hitler and Franco. And what allies they are: there's Max de Lyon, a former arms merchant now hunted by the Gestapo; the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a beautiful aristocrat with a taste for danger; and the Macedonian Stavros, who grew up "fighting Bulgarian bandits. After that, being a gangster was easy." Then there is Eileen Moore, the American woman Ferrar could never forget.

In Midnight in Europe, Alan Furst paints a spellbinding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare--and the heroes and heroines who fought back against the darkness.

Praise for Alan Furst and Midnight in Europe

"Furst never stops astounding me."--Tom Hanks

"Furst is the best in the business."--Vince Flynn

"Elegant, gripping . . . [Furst] remains at the top of his game."--The New York Times

"Suspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst."--The Wall Street Journal

"Endlessly compelling . . . Furst delivers an observant, sexy, and thrilling tale set in the outskirts of World War II. In Furst's hands, Paris once again comes alive with intrigue."--Erik Larson

"Too much fun to put down . . . [Furst is] a master of the atmospheric thriller."--The Boston Globe

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Review:

Praise for Midnight in Europe

"Elegant, gripping . . . [Furst] remains at the top of his game."--The New York Times

"Suspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst."--The Wall Street Journal

"Endlessly compelling . . . Furst delivers an observant, sexy, and thrilling tale set in the outskirts of World War II. In Furst's hands, Paris once again comes alive with intrigue."--Erik Larson

"Too much fun to put down . . . [Furst is] a master of the atmospheric thriller."--The Boston Globe

Praise for Alan Furst

"Furst never stops astounding me."--Tom Hanks

"Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation."--Vince Flynn

"Page after page is dazzling."--James Patterson

"Furst writes profoundly realistic books. The brilliant historical flourishes seem to create--or re-create--a world . . . a heartbreaking sense of the vast Homeric epic that was World War II and the smallness of almost every life that was caught up in it."--The New York Times Book Review

"Though set in a specific place and time, Furst's books are like Chopin's nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell."--Los Angeles Times

"Alan Furst's novels swing a beam into the shadows at the edges of the great events leading to World War II. Readers come knowing he'll deliver effortless narrative."--USA Today

"Mesmerizing . . . Mr. Furst is a master at conjuring European scenes and moods during World War II and the fraught years that preceded it."--The Wall Street Journal

"Alan Furst again shows why he is a grandmaster of the historical espionage genre. . . . It doesn't get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this."--The Boston Globe

Book Description:

Alan Furst ('America's pre-eminent spy novelist' NEW YORK TIMES; 'in a class of his own' William Boyd) returns with a thrilling new novel set during the tense build-up to World War II

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0812981839
• ISBN 13: 9780812981834
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272