Kingdom of Shadows

If you read only one Furst book, this is it. Except for his 2013 release, all of Furst's work is much the same -- character development, ennui, plotless-disconnected scenes. Kingdom of Shadows, however, has the best characters (including two half-way real females) and almost a plot. Besides, the lea......more

This book was frustrating. Everytime the plot started to get interesting Furst would go off on one of his innumerable tangents, examining the circumstances of some bit player. I know that he likes to chronicle the effect WWII had on everyday people but the plot gets too diluted with all the effort t......more

Kingdom of Shadows, Alan Furst. Historical fiction, late 1930s in an anxious Europe. Nicholas Morath a war veteran, intimidating tough nature, a fiercely proud Hungarian, powerfully built, living a successful businessmans life within Parisian elite circles for 20 something years. His Uncle a Count P......more

Welcome to “Night Soldiers,” the brilliant series by one of our most accomplished writers of espionage novels. Meet Nicholas Morath, 44, is an aristocratic Hungarian living in Paris, where he is a partner in an advertising firm. His uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, is a senior diplomat in the Hungarian mi......more

An Alan Furst protagonist is invariably intellectual, politically astute, a man of action, a consummate lover, honorable, brave, and on the right side of any conflict (which follows naturally from despising Nazis). Nicholas Morath is the perfect archetype. Of course, the background and circumstances......more