Midnight in Europe: A Novel, by Alan Furst
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called “the most talented espionage novelist of our generation,” now gives us a taut, suspenseful, romantic, and richly rendered novel of spies and secret operatives in Paris and New York, in Warsaw and Odessa, on the eve of World War II. Cristián Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish émigré, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic’s beleaguered army—an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism. Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies. From shady Paris nightclubs to white-shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies battle the secret agents of Hitler and Franco. And what allies they are: there’s Max de Lyon, a former arms merchant now hunted by the Gestapo; the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a beautiful aristocrat with a taste for danger; and the Macedonian Stavros, who grew up “fighting Bulgarian bandits. After that, being a gangster was easy.” Then there is Eileen Moore, the American woman Ferrar could never forget. In Midnight in Europe, Alan Furst paints a spellbinding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare—and the heroes and heroines who fought back against the darkness.Praise for Alan Furst and Midnight in Europe “Furst never stops astounding me.”—Tom Hanks “Furst is the best in the business.”—Vince Flynn “Elegant, gripping . . . [Furst] remains at the top of his game.”—The New York Times “Suspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst.”—The Wall Street Journal “Endlessly compelling . . . Furst delivers an observant, sexy, and thrilling tale set in the outskirts of World War II. In Furst’s hands, Paris once again comes alive with intrigue.”—Erik Larson “Too much fun to put down . . . [Furst is] a master of the atmospheric thriller.”—The Boston GlobeFrom the Hardcover edition.
Midnight in Europe: A Novel, by Alan Furst- Amazon Sales Rank: #11979 in Books
- Brand: Furst, Alan
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.94" h x .56" w x 5.14" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 272 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* In 1937, the lights were going out in Europe, but jackbooted blackness had not quite swept the Continent. Through multiple novels, Furst has illuminated moments of reluctant courage and desperate love in a world teetering on the edge of destruction. He does so again here, and, as always, he does it exquisitely. We’ve met Furst’s unwilling heroes before, typically in Paris, as they bask in the City of Light while turning away from the chaos in their homeland, whether Poland, Italy, or Germany. This time it’s Spain, where a doomed war is already raging. Spanish émigré Christián Ferrar is a successful lawyer at an international firm, juggling his time between Paris and New York and happy to be far from the troubles in Spain. Yet, when he is approached to aid those supplying the Republican troops with arms, he is surprised to find himself complying. And so begins another tale of clandestine operations in which civilians step up, not out of idealism but out of the realization that history affords them no other choice. Furst is a master of mood, but, above all, he is able to show how the most personal of emotions—love, especially—drives the actions of men and women caught in a time of peril. --Bill Ott
Review Praise for Midnight in Europe “Elegant, gripping . . . [Furst] remains at the top of his game.”—The New York Times “Suspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst.”—The Wall Street Journal “Endlessly compelling . . . Furst delivers an observant, sexy, and thrilling tale set in the outskirts of World War II. In Furst’s hands, Paris once again comes alive with intrigue.”—Erik Larson “Too much fun to put down . . . [Furst is] a master of the atmospheric thriller.”—The Boston GlobePraise for Alan Furst “Furst never stops astounding me.”—Tom Hanks“Furst is the best in the business—the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.”—Vince Flynn “Page after page is dazzling.”—James Patterson “Furst writes profoundly realistic books. The brilliant historical flourishes seem to create—or re-create—a world . . . a heartbreaking sense of the vast Homeric epic that was World War II and the smallness of almost every life that was caught up in it.”—The New York Times Book Review “Though set in a specific place and time, Furst’s books are like Chopin’s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.”—Los Angeles Times “Alan Furst’s novels swing a beam into the shadows at the edges of the great events leading to World War II. Readers come knowing he’ll deliver effortless narrative.”—USA Today “Mesmerizing . . . Mr. Furst is a master at conjuring European scenes and moods during World War II and the fraught years that preceded it.”—The Wall Street Journal “Alan Furst again shows why he is a grandmaster of the historical espionage genre. . . . It doesn’t get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this.”—The Boston GlobeFrom the Hardcover edition.
About the Author Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into eighteen languages, he is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, Spies of the Balkans, Mission to Paris, and Midnight in Europe. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island.From the Hardcover edition.
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154 of 159 people found the following review helpful. Familiar territory By Thomas F. Dillingham Having been a devoted reader of Alan Furst's often dark and exciting novels about the years leading up to and into WWII, with spies and passionate efforts to find ways to prevent the Fascist/Nazi takeover of Europe or to oppose the effort during the war, I approached this new novel with eager anticipation. While I was not deeply disappointed, I have to admit that this one seems to offer evidence of authorial fatigue, of a somewhat casual, if not careless, approach to building the fictional world--full of familiar character types and credible events (possibilities if not historical certainties)--that I have so much enjoyed living in through the earlier novels. There is plenty of suspense; there are appealing characters, including the central figure, the brilliant lawyer and reluctant hero, Cristian Ferrar; there are the same gloomy feelings associated with the frustration of people of good will attempting to resist the efforts of moral monsters while trying to avoid becoming monsters themselves by behaving with the same disregard not only for moral and legal limits but even of basic human decency. There is talk of the necessity of sacrificing some individuals for the sake of the cause, but always that talk is tempered with recognition that the sacrifice is not justified by the ends, even if practical considerations force recognition of its inevitability.In 1937/1938, in Paris, observers of all stripes watch the apparently inevitable destruction of the Spanish Republican cause by the vicious combination of General Franco's Spanish Nationalists with supporters--the Third Reich, most obviously and the tacit or overt "support" (through inaction or behind-the-scenes collaboration) of the British and French governments. Ferrar becomes involved with the Spanish government's covert efforts to buy arms and transport them to the Spanish forces fighting against Franco. His position as a top lawyer in an influential and widely-connected international law firm is an asset in his efforts, and those efforts put him in contact with a number of agents, spies, criminals, variously shady or covert operators in Germany, Spain, even the USSR. As usual, Furst deploys the eccentric, sometimes ruthless, often mysterious characters Ferrar encounters with a deft sense of how to individualize familiar types while seeming not to depend too much on stereotypes, and he handles the scheming and occasional violence deftly. He also takes us to a number of fine restaurants and night spots, where he spices the story with fine wines, excellent French cuisine and hints at a variety of entertainments, whether sophisticated or sleazy.In other words, Furst serves up what his readers expect and enjoy. But in this case, his rapid "jump-cuts" and truncated dialogues begin to feel, after a while, almost mechanical, predictable. Of course, we expect predictable and welcome it when deftly handled, but there is a thinness, a lack of the rich cultural texture that makes his other novels so satisfying. No fan ofFurst's work would want to pass this one by, and surely none will. But it is not a work at the top of his game.
110 of 121 people found the following review helpful. Familiar territory for Furst By Alan A. Elsner By now, readers of Alan Furst know what to expect of his work and he follows the familiar script in this latest novel without much variation. That does not mean that this book was not enjoyable. After all, why mess with success? However, the danger remains that an author at some point becomes formulaic and avoids taking risks - and sooner or later this may happen to Furst.So we once again find ourselves in the years leading up to World War Two in Paris. Our hero follows the usual Furst rules of what makes an interesting protagonist - he's a Spanish lawyer living in exile in Paris, pushing 40, single but willing to embrace sensual adventure when it comes his way, cautious but fundamentally decent, appalled by fascism and eventually pushed from his role of bystander into that of active participant.Our hero gets involved in gunrunning to the Republicans fighting a doomed battle against Franco's fascists in his native land. This involves dangerous trips to Poland and Nazi Berlin to buy Czech anti-tank guns and smuggle them past a blockade and an audacious plot to steal ammunition from the Soviet Union. But there is never the sense that this will change history, which at this point is moving inexorably toward the great conflagration.Furst is brilliant in describing what Berlin was like in late 1937; his reconstruction of the sights and sounds of a city dominated by Hitler and his henchmen is utterly compelling and authentic.He is also great in describing how knowing, experienced adults conducted sophisticated sexual dalliances in those days. His characters seek fleeting pleasure where and when they can find it.As usual, we meet a polyglot group of people trying to fight the Nazis and their allies, each in their own way, essentially disorganized individual acts of defiance against the great tide of evil sweeping the continent. There are a couple of chapters which don't fit well into the narrative but by the end we feel we know more about our hero and his well-meaning decency, which nonetheless has proved powerless to prevent Franco's victory which will condemn his country to 35 years of repression and backwardness. The subtext is that only when decent people get off the fence and take up the struggle can evilx be defeated. Every act of individual defiance keeps the flame alive.It's a worthwhile theme for a gifted writer - but I wonder if it's run its course. They say Vivaldi wrote 400 concertos - or perhaps the same concerto 400 times. I'd hate to see Alan Furst write the same novel 20 times.
47 of 52 people found the following review helpful. Nothing left but formula By Just another reviewer First, I'll strongly recommend what has preceded this book. Mr. Furst's body of work is admirable. I have read every one of his prior books and enjoyed them. Some were better than others, but all were good. This book, unfortunately, is his first, massive misfire. One gets the feeling that Mr. Furst now operates on a strict publishing schedule and an unalterable formula. Saying that the main character cares about his family and goes to church every Sunday and making him an ethical but generally amoral (aside from wanting to stop fascism) man throughout your book does NOT make him well rounded. We see him with family a couple of times, but it is all shallow, and we never understand how he could go to church every Sunday but chase every skirt that passes his way. Surrounding him with two-dimensional (often one-dimensional) stick figures does not provide him with interesting foils. Having no plot to speak of does not move a story along, particularly when not much of a plot really means not much of a story. I kept reading, thinking surely something that a reader might care about would happen, and then suddenly realized that I was only 30 pages from the end. I didn't care any more about the spy plot, and I knew exactly what would happen in the very end. I took a look, saw that I was correct, and threw the book in the trash. If you love Mr. Furst's prior work as much I do, do not buy this book. Send him a clear signal that perhaps his strict schedule should be altered and that formula alone will no longer work.
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