Dark Voyage

In my mind Furst writes the finest espionage novels available. I like his stuff better than LeCarre's. This particular story follows the travails of a Dutch Cargo ship that ends up running undercover missions for the British in early 1941. Furst's ability to describe the atmosphere of those times is a......more

Still good, but maybe my diet has been too heavily weighed toward Furst's spy thrillers recently. The formula is formulaic, even if it is a good formula. 'Dark Voyage' differs from Furst's other World War II espionage novels I've read so far in that there is an absence of eastern European intrigue. S......more

Another winner by Alan Furst. I haven't had this much enjoyment from historical fiction since Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin series. If Furst can turn as many good volumes as he did (and he's well on his way), I'll be in heaven. I've often wondered what my father's (born in Poland in 1909) lif......more

Alan Furst has written a series of novels set in Europe in the 1930s and early 1940s. They overlap and characters occasionally reappear in different books. I've now read all but one of his books and I've enjoyed them all, although some are better than others and like many authors the most recent few......more

When I opened this title on the Kindle, the first thing that is shown is a map of the Baltic. I bookmarked it, thinking I would refer to it again and again. I was right on that point. But then I was immediately confused because the story begins - and spends at least its half - in the Mediterranean.......more