Alan Furst was inspired to start writing historical spy fiction while listening to a vintage recording of Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. Furst closed his eyes and says he was suddenly transported to a Parisian cafe on the eve of World War II. He could taste the soft burn of the cognac and smell the cigarettes, [...]
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Jul
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19
May
“Know your enemies, know your friends, avoid surprise at all costs.” That, according to Alan Furst’s latest novel, is the first rule of espionage.
Such a caveat, in the autumn of 1937, bore down on Poland with a vengeance. Hemmed in by perennial enemies Germany and the Soviet Union, the nation trembled for its future. While [...]
4
Jan
One of the silliest but most prevalent ideas about books is that
they can be divided between the highbrow and the lowbrow. On the
one hand there are novels, on the other, well, there is no single
word to describe the other of a novel.
This is revealing in itself: high or low, they are all just
books (the same [...]
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