The next book in Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers series is due out later this month, and in honor of the occasion Audible’s offering all 13 books in the series so far at a discount price of $4.95 each (through 5/20/16). The sale includes such titles as:
Night Soldiers – Night Soldiers Book 1 (4/5 stars)
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.
Dark Star – Night Soldiers Book 2 (4/5 stars)
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime 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.
As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information.
Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.
The Polish Officer – Night Soldiers Book 3 (4.5/5 stars)
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.
Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British bombers, de Milja fights in the war of the shadows in a world without rules, a world of danger, treachery, and betrayal.
The World At Night – Night Soldiers Book 4 / Jean Casson Series Book 1 (4/5 stars)
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.
A simple mission, but it goes wrong, and Casson realizes he must gamble everything—–his career, the woman he loves, life itself.
Here is a brilliant re-creation of France—its spirit in the moment of defeat, its valor in the moment of rebirth.
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