LibGuides: Enigma--Decipher Victory: Spy Novels of Eastern Europe

Alan Furst: "Master of the Historical Spy Novel"

"Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels. ... 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." READ MORE

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Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 N5 2002
Publication Date: 1988
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.
Dark Star by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 D37 2002
Publication Date: 1991
1937. In the back alleys of Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris.
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 P64 2001
Publication Date: 1995
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground to fight in the war of the shadows, in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal.
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 K56 2001c
Publication Date: 2000
Paris, 1938. As Europe edges toward war, Nicholas Morath, an urbane former cavalry officer, has been recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, a diplomat in the Hungarian legation, for clandestine operations against Hitler's Germany.
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 S75 2009x
Publication Date: 2008
War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. a world of abduction, betrayal, and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw.
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
Call Number: PS3556.U76 S73 2010x
Publication Date: 2010
Greece, 1940. Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to right--in many small ways--the world's evil.