Spies of the Balkans
$25.63
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2014
Summary
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the back rooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers.
Costa Zannis is the city’s dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. And as unknown ships and British ‘travel writers’ trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780228914 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780228910 |
| Author: | Alan Furst |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 134mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
The spy writer Alan Furst’s mastery of the passions and politics of the Second World War is again in thrilling evidence here.
Enthralling…I would recommend this novel without reservation - HERALD
Furst draws a wonderfully convincing picture of a continent on the verge of destruction’ - SPECTATORFurst’s uncanny gift for place and period lift his city, and its dubious cast of characters, well above the espionage norm - INDEPENDENTFurst’s latest excellent spy thriller - GUARDIANCompetitors despair. Alan Furst’s mastery of the espionage novel puts him beyond any would-be rival. No one does it better than Furst - LITERARY REVIEWAbout The Author
Alan Furst
Alan Furst is widely recognised as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into eighteen languages, he is the author of novels including Mission to Paris, SPIES OF THE BALKANS - a TV Book Club choice - The Spies of Warsaw, which became a BBC mini-series starring David Tennant and The Foreign Correspondent. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island.
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