Night Soldiers Series by Alan Furst

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  • Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers #1)
    #1

    Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers #1)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 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... more

  • Dark Star (Night Soldiers #2)
    #2

    Dark Star (Night Soldiers #2)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1991

    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.

  • The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers #3)
    #3

    The Polish Officer (Night Soldiers #3)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1995

    September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest... more

  • The World at Night (Night Soldiers #4)
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    The World at Night (Night Soldiers #4)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1996

    Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he’s offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret service, this idealism gives him the courage to say yes... more

  • Red Gold (Night Soldiers #5)
    #5

    Red Gold (Night Soldiers #5)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1999

    If you enjoy mysteries set against the rich background of World War II Europe (Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy and the fine French series by J. Robert Janes are prime examples), you should also know about Alan Furst. He began by writing such excellent, original books as Dark Star and Night Soldiers, all set in Eastern Europe. The locale then moved to Paris for The World at Night, where we first met the enigmatic film producer and reluctant Resistance hero Jean Casson... more

  • Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers #6)
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    Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers #6)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2000

    In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath — a hugely charismatic hero — becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.

  • Blood Of Victory (Night Soldiers #7)
    #7

    Blood Of Victory (Night Soldiers #7)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2002

    Odessa -- city of Jewish gangsters, birthplace of Trotsky and ace spy Sidney Reilly, a mixture of chicken markets and Palladian architecture. The story begins on a Black Sea freighter in the winter of 1940. A.A. Serebin, poet and journalist, is on his way to Istanbul to effect the release of a former lover... more

  • Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers #8)
    #8

    Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers #8)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2004

    May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo.But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter... more

  • The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers #9)
    #9

    The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers #9)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2006

    From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom–the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin. It is an inspiring, thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts’ passion to fight in the war against tyranny... more

  • The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers #10)
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    The Spies of Warsaw (Night Soldiers #10)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2008

    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 attache from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The Spies of Warsaw, the new novel by Alan Furst.War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield... more

  • Spies of the Balkans (Night Soldiers #11)
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    Spies of the Balkans (Night Soldiers #11)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2010

    Greece, 1940. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. As Adolf Hitler plans to invade the Balkans, spies begin to circle--and Costa Zannis, a senior police official, must deal with them all. He is soon in the game, working to secure an escape route for fugitives from Nazi Berlin that is protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters--and hunted by the Gestapo... more

  • Mission to Paris (Night Soldiers #12)
    #12

    Mission to Paris (Night Soldiers #12)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2012

    It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he’s coming—a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France’s will to defend herself... more

  • Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers #13)
    #13

    Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers #13)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2014

    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... more

  • Hero in France (Night Soldiers #14)
    #14

    Hero in France (Night Soldiers #14)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 2016

    Let Alan Furst take you on a journey through the cobbled streets and smoky salons of wartime Europe as the continent stands on the brink...Spring 1941. Britain is losing the war. But the fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women - young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and military heroes - run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain... more

  • Under Occupation (Night Soldiers #15)
    #15

    Under Occupation (Night Soldiers #15)

    Alan Furst

    Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2019

    ' IN THE WORLD OF THE ESPIONAGE THRILLER, ALAN FURST IS IN A CLASS OF HIS OWN ' William Boyd Inspired by an often-forgotten piece of WW2 history - the role played by Polish slave labourers in the Allied espionage efforts - Under Occupation takes place across Europe in the crucial years of the war, and follows Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels who becomes increasingly entangled in treacherous game of spies... more

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