by Alan Furst · HarperCollins · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006511304
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«Night Soldiers» is Alan Furst's historical spy novel, published by HarperCollins in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Set in Europe in the 1930s and the Second World War, it follows Khristo Stoianev, a young Bulgarian who, after seeing his brother killed by fascists, flees to Moscow and trains as an NKVD agent. His first mission takes him to Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, and then to Paris, as he tries to escape Stalin's purges in a world of espionage and resistance.
First instalment of Alan Furst's «Night Soldiers» series; the novel was originally published in 1988 and this HarperCollins edition is from 1998.
Recommended for fans of historical fiction, espionage and the Second World War.
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
