Alan Furst's Books
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Mission to ParisFrom the "modern-day master of the genre" (Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris.Read More -
Dark VoyageMay, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa;...Read More
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Kingdom of ShadowsIn spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes...Read More
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Blood of VictoryIn the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a...Read More
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The Foreign CorrespondentFrom Alan Furst, bestselling author of Blood of Victory and Dark Voyage, comes a thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to...Read More
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Spies of the Balkans“Furst’s books are like Chopin’s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their...Read More
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The Spies of WarsawA new thriller from "the greatest living writer of espionage fiction" -- Houston Chronicle Autumn 1937: War is coming to Europe. French and German...Read More
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Guardian.co.uk, April 19, 2013
...a strong claim to be the most influential living British writer. Beyond the obvious spy-writer disciples, such as Alan Furst , Alan Judd and Charles Cumming , non-generic operators including the novelists Ian McEwan , William Boyd , Michael Frayn ,...
Sound And Vision Magazine, April 18, 2013
...Apartments: Behind The Scenes” featurettes. Studio: Sony. Spies of Warsaw Based on the book by historical spy novelist Alan Furst (adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais), Spies of Warsaw is a two-part, 180 minute BBC mini-series drama directed...
New York Times, April 10, 2013
...M. (BBC America) SPIES OF WARSAW In the conclusion of this two-part mini-series based on the novel by Alan Furst, Col. Jean-Franois Mercier (David Tennant, foreground above), a French military attach in Warsaw, goes undercover in Czechoslovakia as he...
Fodors.com, April 6, 2013
...learn about the history of an area before visiting it. Recently I've been reading spy novels by Alan Furst, which have inspired me to see more of eastern Europe than the few large cities I've seen in the past. I can hardly wait to see more of...
Collider.com, April 4, 2013
...Based on New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst’s acclaimed novel, the mini-series Spies of Warsaw (airing April 3rd and April 10th on BBC America) tells the story of military attaché Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (David Tennant), a...
Daily Pilot, April 2, 2013
...own buys in the past. When she recently came across a book bearing a blurb from spy novelist Alan Furst, she "knew that the book was good" and took a chance. The Daily Pilot is now using Facebook comments on stories. To post a comment, log into Facebook...
Huffington Post, April 1, 2013
...books to my students interested in contemporary literary fiction. I could add books by Richard Russo, Leslie Forbes, Alan Furst, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Susanna Clarke, Laurie King, Manil Suri, Jonathan Wilson, Lisa Zeidner, Mary Gordon, Aaron Hamburger,...
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, January 17, 2013
...explains Ian. We went to them, they didnt come to us. It is huge how to do an Alan Furst work. We first talked to people in the film industry and realised after a while it was probably a better chance to set it up for television, especially as...
Guardian.co.uk, January 15, 2013
...still verging on camp. An adaptation – by veteran screenwriters Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais – of Alan Furst's historical spy novel isn't a project he can entirely derail on his own, however. In spite of the wonky performances (Tennant is not the...
Film & Video, January 14, 2013
...has revealed its involvement in the BBC's miniseries, Spies of Warsaw. Based on the best-selling thriller by Alan Furst, Spies of Warsaw is set in Poland, Paris, London and Berlin in the run up to the Second World War. It stars David Tennant (Doctor...
UK Nigeria Online, January 13, 2013
...was a salutary lesson in how not to handle a star. Spies of Warsaw is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel, in which David Tennant plays a French spy on the Polish border with Germany in the run-up to the Second World War. Colonel Mercier, it would seem...
Observer, January 13, 2013
...and Ian La Frenais made a ripping job of BBC4's two-part thriller Spies of Warsaw, based on Alan Furst's bestseller and starring David Tennant as Jean-François Mercier, a dashing French military attache based in Poland in 1937. Here he was, scrambling...
The Independent, January 12, 2013
...was a salutary lesson in how not to handle a star. Spies of Warsaw is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel, in which David Tennant plays a French spy on the Polish border with Germany in the run-up to the Second World War. Colonel Mercier, it would seem...
The Independent, January 12, 2013
...was a salutary lesson in how not to handle a star. Spies of Warsaw is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel, in which David Tennant plays a French spy on the Polish border with Germany in the run-up to the Second World War. Colonel Mercier, it would seem...
