Night Soldiers

by Alan Furst (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $5.70

  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.

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.31

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $7.53

  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.