The Kingdom of Shadows

by Alan Furst (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  Nicholas Morath works in a Paris advertising agency, but he travels on a Hungarian diplomatic passport and, when called upon by his uncle Janos, a powerful and shadowy figure, he begins to undertake missions which draw him into the complex world of 1930s European politics and war.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.25

  Alan Furst's new novel brings alive one of the lesser known locales of the Second World War: Hungary, which managed against all odds to preserve its neutrality until 1944, after which it paid a terrible price for those uneasy years of peace. The novel's canvas ranges from Paris in the west to Russia in the east, and confirms Furst's standing as the leading contemporary novelist of espionage and war. 'Furst's ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is matchless' -- Robert Harris 'Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years' -- Time

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  Paperback
  2009

  $10.79

  A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime Europe
  
  Paris, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy - with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading Morath deeper and deeper into danger as Europe edges towards war.