Alan Furst gilt als der unangefochtene Meister des historischen Spionageromans. Seine Werke entführen den Leser in die angespannte Atmosphäre des vor- und nachkriegszeitlichen Europas, in der gewöhnliche Menschen in die gefährliche Welt der Spionage hineingezogen werden. Furst versteht es meisterhaft, Spannung, moralische Dilemmata und den stillen Mut seiner Charaktere einzufangen, die versuchen, in Zeiten globaler Konflikte zu überleben und das Richtige zu tun. Sein suggestiver Stil zieht den Leser unmittelbar in die detailreich ausgearbeiteten historischen Kulissen.
Spying and subterfuge in occupied Paris from one of the great masters of the spy genre. Inspired by the true story of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who smuggled valuable intelligence to the French resistance.
Once again, Furst succeeds in turning human history into tense, humane - and in parts surprisingly sexy - drama MAIL ON SUNDAY 20160605
Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe. Cristián Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces. He agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar in his mission is an unlikely group of allies: idealists and gangsters, arms dealers, aristocrats and spies. From libertine nightclubs in Paris to shady bars by the docks in Gdansk, Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare - and the heroes and heroines who fought back.
Autumn 1939. In Paris American motion picture producer Frederic Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America -- who can travel across the continent freely -- Stahl could be very useful indeed.
A tale set in World War II Macedonia finds senior police official Costa Zannis working with a resistance cell and secret operatives from various European regions to organize an escape route from Berlin to neutral Turkey. By the author of The Spies of Warsaw.
An Autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins THE SPIES OF WARSAW, with war coming to Europe, and French and German operatives locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amidst an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters - Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence, last seen in Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious and sophisticated Doctor Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercier's brutal and vindictive opponent, Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.
Paris, a winter night in 1938: a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel. But this is no romantic traged-it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and is meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper
Im Mai 1941 scheint es, als sei die britische Seeherrschaft verloren - und damit auch jede Hoffnung auf eine siegreiche Wendung des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Eric de Haan, Kapitän eines niederländischen Frachters, wird von der Royal Navy zu den Waffen gerufen.
November 1940. An Bord eines Frachters auf dem Weg von Odessa nach Istanbul beginnt für den Schriftsteller Ilja Serebin nicht nur eine leidenschaftliche Affäre, sondern auch eine riskante Mission. Ein Auftrag des britischen Geheimdienstes führt ihn auf eine Odyssee durch ganz Europa. In der Tradition von Autoren wie Graham Greene oder John Le Carré gelingt Alan Furst ein Spionagethriller auf höchstem literarischem Niveau. „Unglaublich faszinierend! Alan Furst ist ein Meister des Spionagethrillers.“ Robert Harris „Furst erzeugt mit einer meisterhaft verknappten Sprache der Andeutungen eine Stimmung allgemeiner Angst und Unsicherheit.“ Die Zeit „Dieser Roman - atmosphärisch dicht und wahrhaft romantisch - lässt die Hollywoodfilme der Vierzigerjahre aufleben.“ The New Yorker
'A wonderfully evocative picture of wartime Paris and the moral maze of resistance' Mail on Sunday
