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Midnight in Europe : a novel / Alan Furst.
Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government.
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- ISBN: 9781400069491 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 251 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
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| Subject: | Paris (France) > History > Fiction. Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Spy stories. Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government. - Baker & Taylor
Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government. By the best-selling author ofMission to Paris . 12,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
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 âthe most talented espionage novelist of our generation,â 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 Republicâs beleaguered armyâan 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: thereâs 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 âfighting Bulgarian bandits. After that, being a gangster was easy.â 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 nightmareâand the heroes and heroines who fought back against the darkness.
Praise for Alan Furst and Midnight in Europe
âFurst never stops astounding me.ââTom Hanks
âFurst is the best in the business.ââVince Flynn
âElegant, gripping . . . [Furst] remains at the top of his game.ââThe New York Times
âSuspenseful 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.ââThe Wall Street Journal
âEndlessly compelling . . . Furst delivers an observant, sexy, and thrilling tale set in the outskirts of World War II. In Furstâs hands, Paris once again comes alive with intrigue.ââErik Larson
âToo much fun to put down . . . [Furst is] a master of the atmospheric thriller.ââThe Boston Globe
