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.
The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel.
Fesselnd wie „Der dritte Mann“, atmosphärisch wie „Casablanca“, navigiert De Haan mit seinem Schiff zwischen den Fronten des Krieges in Europa. Unter falscher Flagge und ständig in Gefahr, nimmt die Noordendam immer mehr Flüchtlinge an Bord, die dem Krieg entkommen wollen. Dazu gehören Maria Bromen, eine russische Journalistin auf der NKVD-Liste, Kolb, ein deutscher Agent, der für die falsche Seite arbeitet, ein jüdischer Medizinstudent, der als Schiffsarzt eingeschmuggelt wird, ein polnischer Offizier und eine ukrainische Theatertruppe. In der kritischen Stunde des Wolfs, während der Morgenschicht, steht De Haan immer wieder vor folgenschweren Entscheidungen, die das Schicksal einer kleinen Gruppe von Menschen in Not besiegeln. „Alan Fursts Können erhebt ihn über jeden Möchte-gern-Konkurrenten. Besser kann man einen Spionageroman nicht schreiben. Erstklassig in jeder Hinsicht!“ – Literary Review. „Furst erinnert uns in seinen glänzenden Porträts an ein Europa, in dem viele Menschen keinen anderen Ausweg sahen, als das Richtige zu tun.“ – DIE ZEIT. „Dieser Roman - atmosphärisch dicht und wahrhaft romantisch - lässt die Hollywoodfilme der Vierzigerjahre aufleben.“ – The New Yorker.
November 1940: Der Schriftsteller Ilja Serebin begibt sich auf einem Frachter von Odessa nach Istanbul nicht nur in eine leidenschaftliche Affäre, sondern auch auf eine riskante Mission für den britischen Geheimdienst, die ihn durch ganz Europa führt.
'A wonderfully evocative picture of wartime Paris and the moral maze of resistance' Mail on Sunday
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.
"Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines--from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war--arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins--emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II."--Back cover
Der ungarische Aristokrat Nicholas Morath, Kavallerieleutnant a.D., führt ein scheinbar angenehmes Leben in Paris. Gelegentlich unternimmt er im Auftrag seines Onkels, des Diplomaten Graf Polanyi, halb offizielle Dienstreisen nach Osteuropa. Als sich 1938 das politische Klima verschärft, werden Moraths Missionen immer gefährlicher...
From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistance September, 1939. The invading Germans blaze a trail of destruction across Poland. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in the struggle for their nation's survival. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who now must learn a dangerous new role: spymaster in the anti-Nazi underground. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage; he moves through Europe, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. In Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people's will to resist. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black-market bistros with Nazis while uncovering information about German battle plans. And a love affair with a woman of the French Resistance leads him to make the greatest decision of his life.
The acclaimed author of Night Soldiers offers a dramatic and exciting spy thriller of Eastern Europe on the brink of World War II. In the back alleys and glittering salons of Europe, there is a thin line between survival and betrayal, as Soviet NKVD agents and the Nazi Gestapo confront each other in a brilliant duel of espionage. "Like watching Casablanca for the first time".--Time.
