Book description
Paris, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns
home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in
Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet
favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and,
desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany,
he trades in conspiracy - with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British
spies and NKVD defectors, leading Morath deeper and deeper into danger
as Europe edges towards war. 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.
