Who is alan furst

Spies of the Balkans. The Spies of Warsaw. See More. Alan Furst Also Contributed To. The Ministry of Fear. The Book of Spies.

The Three Musketeers. This is all like a chemical reaction. You add a certain thing—the reagent—and something happens. The book concerns the end of the occupation phase of the war fierce fighting continued for several months after the liberation of German-occupied Europe , and Furst says the book has been fun to write, even if history has lobbed a hand grenade at one of his hallmark stylistic devices. It is a change for me.

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His father had died the same year, and his mother, rather too quickly, remarried. Alone and without much money, he decided to do what he wanted, to be a journalist, and found his subjects wherever he could.

And he haunted the courts: the Delaunay gang of bank robbers captured at last; the widow Robet, who poisoned her husband for his life insurance; the assassination of the Serbian consul in Bordeaux—Balkan politics? That he did not need to see. Ricard sold many of his articles to small Parisian weeklies for a few francs, no more. But some of what he witnessed captured his imagination.

Not so much the jealous lovers, not so much the scheming postal clerks, not the pistol-waving robbers or the embezzling bank presidents; it was the political crimes that drew his interest. What was the story here? There was, he realized, a novel in this, yes, a detective novel in form but pitched higher, for the sophisticated reader who wanted more than a detective with a cold waiting for a train.

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