Night Soldiers

by Alan Furst (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $5.67

  This highly original novel charting the rise of the intelligence services in pre-war Eastern Europe first established Alan Furst's remarkable reputation. Now it is to be reissued in B-format, in a new cover style, alongside his new paperback, The World at Night. In Bulgaria in 1934 nineteen-year-old Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of strutting thugs. Realising the growing menace of Fascism, he takes a risk on the promise of Communism and flees to Moscow, where he is trained as an agent of the NKVD, precursor of the KGB, and forms a close bond with a group of fellow students. His first mission is to Catalonia, where he is soon caught up in the bloody horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Then he learns he is to be the victim of one of Stalin's purges, and is forced to flee once again, this time to Paris!

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.27

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.69

  The soldiers of the night were a secret brotherhood: Khristo, a Bulgarian peasant; Voluta, a Pole who later emerged as a plant; Kulic, a Yugoslav; the clever Sascha Vonets; and Goldman, a Roumanian Jew. The novel describes the complex and violent way of the life of a spy and is set in Russia, 1934 - 1945. Alan Furst has published four novels - a trilogy of murder mysteries and Shadow Trade , set in New York City.