Book description
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His
brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret
intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war.
Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo
flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world
of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for
Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937
Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944.
Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a
grand scale. Alan Furst has lived for long periods in France,
especially in Paris, and has travelled as a journalist in Eastern Europe
and Russia. He has written extensively for Esquire and the International
Herald Tribune.
