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| 1. |  | The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel from Random House Price: $16.50 Customer Review:  Although I told myself I wouldn't, I finally did break down and pay hardcover price for Alan Furst's latest. I just can't stay away from Furst novels, nor can I imagine why I'd want to. There's still lots of atmosphere and a more recognizable plot than some of his novels have. This takes place... |
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| 2. | [no image] | Night Soldiers from Houghton Mifflin (T) Customer Review: As an espionage writer, Furst excels at capturing characters' emotions, and the atmosphere in which they are acting. As the action progresses from country to country, and year to year (1934-1945), each milieu has its own distinctive personality, geography and history. The overall theme is the... |
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| 3. |  | Dark Star: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $10.17 Customer Review:  I am a huge WWII history fan, but this novel is so enthralled with its own overwrought descriptions of minor details (eg, the wine offered to Szara by the rich French Jew) that the story is lost and I stopped caring about the (lack of) action. I gave up half way through. On to the new translation of... |
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| 4. |  | The Polish Officer: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Get yourself a comfortable chair and settle in for another of Alan Furst's outstanding novels of clandestine warriors in World War II. As always, his tremendous knowledge of the era is on display, as well as great descriptive writing. You really feel the bite of the wind in the Polish forests in... |
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| 5. |  | The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Furst is brilliant at character study, but more than that, he delivers you into another world. Pre-World II Europe becomes present. For anybody who's interested in those years of upheaval, extraordinary courage as well as human frailty and sinister ideologies, please get any of his extraordinary... |
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| 6. | [no image] | Red Gold from Ulverscroft Large Print Customer Review: I recently read The Spies of Warsaw and now am reading all the Alan Furst I can get my hands on. Red Gold is another great one- the author writes so well about this time period. What sets Furst apart is the very ordinariness of some of the events and characters- the Gestapo occasionally screw up and... |
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| 7. |  | The World at Night: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review:  Furst is in his old stomping ground of World War II here. Jean Casson, movie producer and reluctant fighter finds himself pinched between the storm troopers and the Paris he used to enjoy. Furst clips his sentences in a unique style that helps to keep the book moving. Just the same, I was hoping for... |
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| 8. |  | The Three Musketeers (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $11.01 Customer Review:  I have put off reading this book for years... mainly because of its size, and the fact that it was written in French, and I just didn't want to put that much work into anything. I finally convinced myself that I really needed to read this because I enjoy the movies so much. In the beginning...... |
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| 9. |  | Dark Voyage: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: A friend gave me this book to read and I thought it was great writing throughout ... the author is no novice ... if not for the fact espionage does very little for me, this would be a five star review, but it's my inability to get excited about anything spy that left me wanting in the end. I did... |
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| 10. |  | Kingdom of Shadows from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: Alan Furst does his usual great job of evoking a particular time and place, due to either fantastic research or a brilliant imagination or both. (Did you know the Austro-Hungarian Empire had 10 official languages ? Me neither.) My quibble is with the plot, which meanders quite a bit. The main... |
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| 11. |  | Blood of Victory: A Novel from Random House Trade Paperbacks Price: $11.16 Customer Review: I really wanted to like this book and this writer. After all he is prolific, with many more books in the same vein. But, alas, it was not to be. This is pretty thin gruel. Yes it is heavily atmospheric, but it is also superficial, contrived and predictible. Hungarian counts, delicate, seductive,... |
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| 12. |  | The Ministry of Fear: An Entertainment (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $11.20 Customer Review: An interesting "entertainment" from Greene. The Ministry of Fear is a (sort-of) thriller, memorably set during the Blitz. The protagonist, a tortured and guilty man named Arthur Rowe, haunts the charred London landscape, the half-buildings and surreal remains somehow jibing perfectly with his own... |
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| 13. |  | The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Price: $10.17 Customer Review: I was disappointed in this book. I expected something more exciting and think the selection was poor. |
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| 14. |  | Red Gold from Trafalgar Square Publishing Customer Review: Like his other WWII espionage books (The Polish Officer, Dark Star), Red Gold brings the seediness and squalidness of spying to the fore. This entry takes place almost entirely within German occupied France in 1941 and picks up the story of former filmmaker Jean Casson where it left off at the end... |
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| 15. | [no image] | LA Sangre De LA Victoria from Ediciones Urano Price: $19.95 | |
| 16. | [no image] | THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, A NOVEL. from Random House, | |
| 17. | [no image] | The Caribbean Account from Dell Publishing Customer Review: Those familiar with the current WWII settings of Alan Furst's thrillers like Dark Star and Red Gold will be amazed at the difference between those and his earlier works. But I found this novel to be a wonderfully enjoyable read, kind of a cross between current James Ellroy and Carl Hiaasen--yet a... |
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| 18. |  | Red Gold from Weidenfeld & Nicolson | |
| 19. |  | El Corresponsal/ the Foreign Correspondent from Editorial Seix Barral Price: $23.95 | |
| 20. | [no image] | Shadow Trade from Dell Pub Co Customer Review: This is the last installment of the old Alan Furst. Soon he would be immersed in the shadows and espionage of pre-WWII Europe. These works are the works of Furst, the Master. Shadow Trade is a damn fine read though. Suspenseful, with splendid charactor development and wit. If this book were to be... |
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| 21. | [no image] | The Paris Drop from Pinnacle Books (Mm) Customer Review: Being a big fan of Furst's more current novels, I was dubious about exploring is earlier work. My caution turned out to be unfounded. Although, the style and settings are an about face to his recent works, this is an outstanding, suspenseful, and often humorous novel. Should be re-issued, it's as... |
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| 22. | [no image] | Blood Of Victory | |
| 23. | [no image] | Dark Voyage from Recorded Books | |
| 24. | [no image] | BLOOD OF VICTORY from Publisher Unknown | |
| 25. | [no image] | Blood of Victory from Random House | |
| 26. | [no image] | Blood of Victory from Recorded Books | |
| 27. | [no image] | DARK STAR from Houghton Mifflin | |
| 28. | [no image] | Dark Star from Houghton Mifflin | |
| 29. | [no image] | Dark Voyage from RANDOM HOUSE | |
| 30. | [no image] | Dark Voyage Signed 1ST Edition from RANDOM HOUSE TRADE @ | |
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