Stealing military secrets, plotting a presidential assassination, spreading disinformation: It’s all in a day’s work in these recent titles. By Andrew Ervin Alan Furst’s latest follows five months in ...

Alan Furst, read by Daniel Gerroll. Simon & Schuster Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, nine hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-44236816-3 Furst’s latest historical espionage novel explores the ominous landscape of ...

Blood of Victory by Alan Furst Random House, 237 pp., $24.95 IT CAN BE A PLEASING HAPPENSTANCE how one becomes acquainted with an author–a book review, an appealing title perhaps, but more often ...

“Midnight in Europe” by Alan Furst (Random House, 251 pages, $27) Are you the sort of reader who is on the lookout for books that are engaging, of consistently high quality, and reliably entertaining?

Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end. Such is it with this historical spy ...

John Varley (1947-2025), Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction novelist, who died on December 10, 2025 at the age of 78, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios ...

America's pre-eminent spy novelist Alan Furst took a course in Victorian literature when he was a sophomore in college and it changed everything. One of the writers he studied in that course was ...

At the end of novelist Alan Furst's "Spies of the Balkans," readers discover that two characters who managed to escape from Nazi Germany ended up opening a bookstore in Tulsa, Okla., of all places.

I interviewed mystery author Alan Furst today at BEA. Furst is the author of ten historical spy thrillers set in Europe in the 30s and 40s. He was a genuine delight—at the end of the interview, he ...

ENTHUSIASTS for the work of Alan Furst have compared reading his books to watching Casablanca for the first time. There is certainly a glamorous, nostalgic quality to his evocations of wartime Paris ...