Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13)

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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.Cristi n Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish migr , is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic s beleaguered army an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism.Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies From shady Paris nightclubs to white shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies battle the secret agents of Hitler and Franco And what allies they are there s Max de Lyon, a former arms merchant now hunted by the Gestapo the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a beautiful aristocrat with a taste for danger and the Macedonian Stavros, who grew up fighting Bulgarian bandits After that, being a gangster was easy Then there is Eileen Moore, the American woman Ferrar could never forget.In Midnight in Europe, Alan Furst paints a spellbinding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare and the heroes and heroines who fought back against the darkness. Best Download Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13) [ author ] Alan Furst [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Wouldn t it be a better world if people revealed themselves Did what they secretly wanted I know you want to kiss me, she said What are you afraid of So he locked the door and they went ahead with it, his hands exploring herShe stood, removed hat and dress, thensuddenly self conscious, Would you look away for a moment He did, discovering a perfect image of the dimly lit compartment in the dark window as she wriggled out of the g...I got a pretty good fix for my addiction to this loosely connected series Now up to 13 books known as The Night Soldiers collection, they all take place in the last few years before France is invaded May 1940 and feature relatively ordinary people become extraordinary by getting involved in actions to slow the impeding takeover of Europe by the fascists. France is usually a setting for much of the action, but the plots spread the narrative to peoples and locations in other countries which I got a pretty good fix for my addiction to this loosely connected series Now up to 13 books known as The Night Soldiers collection, they all take place in the last few years before France is invaded May 1940 and feature relatively ordinary people become extraordinary by getting involved in actions to slow the impeding takeover of Europe by the fascists. France is usually a setting for much of the action, but the plots spread the narrative to peoples and locations in other countries which vary from book to book e.g Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria,the Netherlands, Greece He...Europe is a nice neighbourhood with a mad dog Just now the dog is biting Spain, and nobody else in the neighbourhood wants to get bitten, so they look away But there are people like Cristi n Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer employed by Coudert Fr res in Paris, for whom the situation in Spain matters Consequently he allies himself with a clandestine operation where he assists in the pr...Another terrific story from Alan Furst, who always manages a different take on events that you are vaguely familiar with Here, a lawyer in Paris gets involved in arms smuggling on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War, and in the course of telling the story, Furst presents as clear an understanding of what that war was about as I have read All of the bad guys Germany, Russia and Italy were getting ready for the bigger war to follow while the French and British dithered.Furst s abili Another terrific story from Alan Furst, who always manages a different take on events that you are vaguely familiar with Here, a lawyer in Paris gets involved in arms smuggling on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War, and in the course of telling the story, Furst presents as clear an understanding of what that war was about as I have...Furst phoned this one in The characters, settings and dialogue are sketchy and formulaic, even as he explains things any dunderhead would know and repeats plot points in case we missed them the first time A very disappointing effort from an...With Midnight in Europe Alan Furst is exposed as a good novelist now simply going through the motions He has lost his edge His characters are stereotypes and the plots, always his weakness, areslifeless than usual Furst continues to patronize his readers with ham handed history lessons.I came across two lines which, if they had been openings, would be contenders for th...Damn I finished it in one day Now I have to wait two years for his next one sigh Maybe I ll go reread Night Soldiers or Dark Star. That might make me feel better.I ve always wondered what the Spanish Civil War was really about No one could tell me I knew it was a testing ground for Hitler s new weapons, but that s about it So, yeah, maybe I m a dope, but I wasn t really clear on what World War 1 was about either, until my daughter wrote an 11th grade paper about it As he always does, Damn I finished it in one day Now I have to wait two years for his next one sigh Maybe I ll go reread Night Soldiers or Dark Star. That might make me feel better.I ve always wondered what the Spanish Civil War was really about No one could tell me I knew it was a testing ground for Hitler s new weapons, but that s about it So, yeah, maybe I m a dope, but I wasn t really clear on what World War 1 was about either, until my daughter wrote an 11th grade paper about it As he always does, Alan Furst teases apart the tangled threads of the war, explaining and displaying the different sides, then showing you the terrible human cost Over the course of this brief, intelligent, sexy, and elegantly written novel, it became blindingly clear how this conflict grew into the horrors of World War 2, an extension of the grotesque battle between communism and fascism.Was this Furst at his best Wellfor that you must ...It is December 1937 Cristian Ferrar is a Spanish migr , a multi lingual lawyer with the law firm Coudert Fr res in Paris, his family living in a house at Louveciennes so loved by Impressionist artists He is in New York for meetings at the branch there and looking for a Christmas present for his girlfriend, aware of the man who has been following him all day In Madrid another migr smuggles false documents and money to a woman hiding from Franco s secret police On his way back to his hotel It is December 1937 Cristian Ferrar is a Spanish migr , a multi lingual lawyer with the law firm Coudert Fr res in Paris, his family living in a house at Louveciennes so loved by Impressionist a...Alan Furst s WWII novels read like chilled martinis served on a dark battlefield His crisp prose and compelling narratives are spare and go down smooth, but their iciness chills the blood as you realize that his protagonists, often idealistic yet jaded men caught up in the snare of fascism, are about to come up against forces far greater than they expect He never wastes time filling in backstory From page one, you re drawn into his masterful tales set in isolated corners of a Europe hovering Alan Furst s WWII novels read like chilled martinis served on a dark battlefield His crisp prose and compelling narratives are spare and go down smooth, but their iciness chills the blood as you realize that his protagonists, often idealistic yet jaded men caught up in the snare of fascism, are about to come up against forces far greater than they expect He never wastes time filling in backstory From page one, you re drawn into his masterful tales set in isolated corners of a Europe hovering on the brink of annihilation, populated by spies, black marketeers, gilded dames with secrets, night club owners, and blustering arms dealers Each novel stands on its own a piece of an overall devastating picture Where he excels is in creating lasting glimpses into a vanquished world full of flawed humanity, whose choices are never simple, never easy, and of decisions made in a vacuum of historical forethought For Furst s people, war is a reality, not an abstraction Ev...What is there left to say about Alan Furst This novel was not better than the others, nor as good, but I can t call it appreciably worse Some reviews have said Furst phoned this one in, which I don t agree with, but I think they put their fingers on something lackluster in this book, which I mwilling to pin on its focus on the Spanish Civil War That conflict iscomplex and less familiar and it s not going to be as easy to use its events and outcome to loom over the story I did fin What is there left to say about Alan Furst This novel...

Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13)
  • English
  • 11 February 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 251 pages
  • 1400069491
  • Alan Furst
  • Midnight in Europe (Night Soldiers, #13)