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	Barnes & Noble.com - Alan Furst - Books: Meet the Writers
		Furst's books are grounded in their author’s extensive research of the period, and are written in an almost newsy prose broken occasionally by beautiful, lyrical passages describing, say, a Paris morning in the 1940s, or night at the Czechoslavakian-Hungarian border.
		And while Furst’s novels are entertaining and, often, elegant, they are not easy reads: the books traverse through a wide swath of Europe (an important character itself in Furst’s fiction), and characters duck behind corners and sometimes stumble into the continent’s more remote regions (while not partying in Paris, that is).
		Furst's books have grown leaner and tauter over the years, the result of a conscious effort "to say more by saying less." Notwithstanding this paring back, or perhaps because of it, the praise for his books only seems to multiply, and Furst’s writing has lost none of its veracity or suspense.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=2U4HUZFZEO&cid=968836 (877 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Alan Furst travels through the spy-ridden 'Shadows' of Europe - January 19, 2001
		This is the period chronicled by Alan Furst, author of five previous historical espionage thrillers, whose latest novel, "Kingdom of Shadows," shows the author in his element.
		Furst paints a mood of familiarity between the two men, a resignation that the lessons of the Great War have not sunk in, that they must act to protect themselves and their country from an inevitable showdown between Hitler and Stalin.
		Furst was drawn to Hungary by its geographical position in the heart of Europe and its ability to have remained unscathed until late in the war.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/books/news/01/19/furst.shadows (1089 words)

	Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941) is an American author of historical spy novels set just prior to and during the Second World War.
		Furst has been particularly successful in evoking the cities and characters of Eastern Europe during the period from 1933 to 1944.
		Inventory of Alan Furst papers 1961-2005 at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Alan_Furst.htm (339 words)

	Alan Furst Papers
		The papers of American writer Alan Furst contain drafts of his novels and non-fiction, as well as articles, book reviews, essays, poems, screenplays, and stories.
		Furst 's articles on a variety of topics appeared in popular magazines and newspapers including Architectural Digest, Elle, Esquire, 50 Plus, International Herald Tribune, Islands, New Choices, New York, The New York Times, Pursuits, Salon, and Seattle Weekly.
		The small amount of personal correspondence from friends and acquaintances is virtually all related to Furst's books, with the exception of a 1963 letter from Furst's grandfather Max Stockman in which his grandson is urged to be a teacher and "write as a sideline" in his spare time.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/furst.html (613 words)

	Alan Furst
		Alan Furst has written seven dark novels set in Europe at or on the eve of the start of the World War II.
		Because he makes use of these common elements in each book, Alan Furst is susceptible to dismissal as a genre writer, but insofar as 'genre writer' is a put-down, it no more applies to Mr Furst than it does to Henry James, whose novels bear an even stronger family resemblance.
		Mr Furst's leading men are comfortable in their skin, and since their skin and other physical attributes are never repellent, women are drawn to them.
	www.portifex.com /ReadingMatter/alan_furst.htm (2644 words)

	Dark Voyage - Alan Furst - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In another hair-raising fl-and-white noir from Alan Furst, World War II is the backdrop, and preventing the enemy from sinking any more merchant ships is the point: in two years, the Allies have lost nearly 1600 vessels.
		Furst's famously succinct eroticism...and engages in a relatively perfunctory affair with one passenger.
		Alan Furst's mastery of the espionage novel puts him beyond any would-be rival....No one does it better than Furst and DARK VOYAGE is about as good as it gets.
	www.biblio.com /books/83626697.html (554 words)

	Dark Voyage by Alan Furst: Reviews
		Furst has both a novelist's imagination and a historian's antennae for the nuances of unsteady World War II allegiances...The streamlined clarity with which Dark Voyage pulls all this together is extraordinary.
		[Furst] portrays the routine of shipboard life, the deference and camaraderie of the multinational crew, and the tension of boarding parties on the high seas with the facility and ease of Patrick O'Brien.
		Furst seems to be trying to capture the incidental nature of real experience with his meandering travelogue of a plot; but it's an unrewarding slog for the reader.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/furstalan/darkvoyage (708 words)

	Night and fog: Alan Furst and the literature of espionage National Interest, The - Find Articles
		Rather like the Napoleonic naval tales of Patrick O'Brian, Furst's novels have become an interesting cultural phenomenon, not least because his plots are less than riveting and his characters (particularly the women) often wooden or sketchily drawn.
		But Furst, it is widely agreed, is a writer of genius when it comes to atmosphere, that elusive but magical mix of mood and time and place.
		And almost effortlessly, Furst can achieve the same pitch-perfect sense of location at a Moscow spy school in 1932, in Warsaw as war breaks out, in Bucharest during a coup or in Istanbul as the spies bicker and plot their moves.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2751/is_78/ai_n9483884 (805 words)

	Alan Furst - A biography of Alan Furst.
		Furst describes the area of his interest as "near history." His novels are set between 1933–the date of Adolf Hitler's ascent, with the first Stalinist purges in Moscow coming a year later–and 1945, which saw the end of the war in Europe.
		Furst uses books by journalists of the time, personal memoirs–some privately published–autobiographies (many of the prominent individuals of the period wrote them), war and political histories, and characteristic novels written during those years.
		The heroes of Alan Furst's novels include a Bulgarian defector from the Soviet intelligence service, a foreign correspondent for Pravda, a Polish cartographer who works for the army general staff, a French producer of gangster films, and a Hungarian émigré who works with a diplomat at the Hungarian legation in Paris.
	www.bookbrowse.com /biographies/index.cfm?author_number=576 (742 words)

	BookPage Interview June 2006: Alan Furst
		Alan Furst admits he's "not entirely clear" on how he came to be the pre-eminent American writer of World War II spy novels.
		It is Furst's foremost intention, and his greatest gift, to so snugly settle us into the shoes of his characters that we get night sweats waiting for the knock of leather-gloved hands on the door.
		As with Furst's previous spy novels, The Foreign Correspondent examines a slice of European history between 1922 and 1945 from the perspective of a particular vocation that had an impact on WWII.
	www.bookpage.com /0606bp/alan_furst.html (980 words)

	The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
		JACKET NOTES: From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom–the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin.
		In the desperate politics of Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn, worth surveillance, or flmail, or murder.
		The Foreign Correspondent is Alan Furst at his absolute best–taut and powerful, enigmatic and romantic, with sharp, seductive writing that takes the reader through darkness and intrigue to a spectacular denouement.
	italian-mysteries.com /AFU01.html (357 words)

	Amazon.com: Dark Voyage: A Novel: Books: Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A new historical espionage thriller by Alan Furst is always cause for celebration, and in his eighth novel, the talented writer who's made a particular time and place his own--Europe on the eve of World War II--takes his fortunate readers aboard the tramp ship Noordendam.
		Alan Furst takes his story away from his usual haunts to the deck of the Dutch tramp steamer the Noordendam and the waters of the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas.
		Furst is the master at capturing the atmosphere of the early days of WW II (especially Paris and eastern Europe) and he's a bit 'at sea' (pardon the pun) in Dark Voyage.
	www.amazon.com /Dark-Voyage-Novel-Alan-Furst/dp/1400060184 (3002 words)

	Alan Furst - the Foreign Correspondent - AOL Books
		From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls “America’s preeminent spy novelist,” comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom—the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin.
		Alan Furst was born and raised in Manhattan.
		Alan Furst, author of 'The Foreign Correspondent.' Go to AOL Books for the latest book news, book reviews, book lists, and book clubs.
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	Blood of Victory by Alan Furst - read excerpt
		Still, in the words of Leon Trotsky, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Serebin is recruited for an operation run by Count Janos Polanyi, a Hungarian master spy now working for the British secret services.
		Blood of Victory is classic Alan Furst, combining remarkable authenticity and atmosphere with the complexity and excitement of an outstanding spy thriller.
		Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel.
	mostlyfiction.com /excerpts/bloodofvictory.htm (1751 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dark Voyage: Books: Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Furst's series of WWII-era espionage novels tend to eschew traditional narrative in favor of a series of episodes sharing a similar claustrophobic atmosphere in which a grim, reluctant hero must complete some task.
		The story Furst tells is certainly interesting an interesting one, highlighting the shadowy world of merchant shipping in the war, however it generally lacks the suspense one expects from him.
		What they almost univerally agreed instead was that Furst is a master of tension, plausability, and excitement and that his latest novel has none of the lazy plotting and absurd crises that make-up 99% of generic crime and thriller fiction.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dark-Voyage-Alan-Furst/dp/1400060184 (1318 words)

	'Dark Voyage' by Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alan Furst's novels depend on their atmospheric qualities as well.
		It is not far from Graham Greene's dim, dusty world of soured morality and languorous betrayal, Eric Ambler's shadowy byways of the globe or, better yet, Erich Maria Remarque ("Arch of Triumph," "The Night in Lisbon"), who had personal knowledge of it.
		Furst's eighth volume in his wartime series is, like last year's "Blood of Victory," of moderate length.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04221/357835.stm (498 words)

	Alan Furst at AllExperts
		Alan Furst (born February 20, 1941, in New York City) is an American author of historical spy novels set just prior to and during the Second World War.
		Raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967.
		Furst has been particularly successful in evoking the cities and characters of Eastern Europe during the period from 1933-1944.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/al/alan_furst.htm (371 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Kingdom of Shadows, by Alan Furst, Paperback, 1ST TRADE
		Furst has been compared to a great many writers -- Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, John le Carré -- but none of these comparisons seem particularly apt.
		Furst is very much his own man, and his six-volume cycle of war novels represents a unique achievement.
		In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=9780375758263 (834 words)

	Amazon.de: The Kingdom of Shadows: English Books: Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the level of a highly intelligent espionage tale, Furst demonstrates a masterly command of the idiom, with Polanyi's dangerous odysseys between the Czech fortresses of the Sudeten mountains and the villas of Budapest handled in an utterly authoritative fashion.
		Alan Furst's new novel brings alive one of the lesser known locales of the Second World War: Hungary, which managed against all odds to preserve its neutrality until 1944, after which it paid a terrible price for those uneasy years of peace.
		The novel's canvas ranges from Paris in the west to Russia in the east, and confirms Furst's standing as the leading contemporary novelist of espionage and war.
	www.amazon.de /Kingdom-Shadows-Alan-Furst/dp/057506837X (553 words)

	MPR Books: "The Polish Officer" and "Kindgom of Shadows" by Alan Furst
		It has taken Alan Furst 13 years to find his place in the spotlight.
		In the course of his six novels, Alan Furst has been praised in reviews from The New York Times to USA Today to Time.
		Often compared to Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, Furst is a master of the spy thriller and one of the great war novelists of our time.
	www.mpr.org /books/titles/furst_polishshadows.shtml (535 words)

	CNN.com - Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas' - December 4, 2001
		But Furst's world is also full of gray and shadow, where trust is uncertain, motives are suspect, and the right thing to do isn't always the thing that gets done.
		Furst has now written of this period in six novels, including "The Polish Officer," "Night Soldiers," and his most recent, "Kingdom of Shadows." All six were recently acquired by Random House, which is releasing them in paperback, testament to the following that Furst's work has earned.
		Furst has been traveling on and off for months promoting the paperback reissues.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/12/04/alan.furst (909 words)

	News Release 7/2006: Ransom Center acquires archive of writer Alan Furst
		Furst, who is known for capturing Europe in conflict between 1933 and 1941 in his fiction, writes novels that fit into a genre he defines as historical espionage.
		“In his novels, Alan Furst captures the tense and shadowy world of Europe on the eve of World War II and into the war itself,” said Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley.
		When he returned to the United States, Furst started writing novels such as “Dark Star” and “Night Soldiers” that have won him critical laurels and a mounting reputation.
	www.utexas.edu /opa/news/2006/07/hrc31.html (465 words)

	Amazon.fr : Red Gold: Livres en anglais: Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There's nothing glamorous about the work or its result, but Furst is such a persuasive writer that we come to realize what a success it is for Casson just to stay alive.
		From the atmosphere established in his fifth novel's first sentence ("Casson woke in a room in a cheap hotel and smoked his last cigarette") to the knock on the door at the denouement, Furst again proves himself the master of his chosen terrain?behind the lines of Nazi occupation in France during WWII.
		Furst's textured plot?exhibiting shifting loyalties and betrayals; lone, often hopeless acts of heroism; and lovers bravely parting?makes for spellbinding drama.
	www.amazon.fr /Red-Gold-Alan-Furst/dp/0679451862 (629 words)

	Book Review - Blood of Victory by Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wars are often remembered for their large battles, but most of the participants are involved in a vast number of smaller battles and skirmishes that make up the majority of the war.
		In Blood of Victory, Alan Furst delivers a spy novel that deals with just a minor skirmish during World War II, with ordinary people pulled into the maelstrom of events because it was impossible not to get involved.
		In the guise of a spy story, Alan Furst has given us a story about a man with the courage to retain his humanity, his love, and his hopes in the face of evil.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /blood_of_victory/review (1261 words)

	Airplane Reading: Alan Furst’s ‘Dark Voyage’ - Newsweek Entertainment - MSNBC.com
		Alan Furst’s thrillers have created a world that is so historically dead-on they have formed a genre of their own
		While Furst’s accuracy (as certified by countless professional historians) is impeccable, it’s the believability of both his settings and characterizations that bring these novels to the doorstep of literature.
		Furst is at his best invoking the shadowy connections that bind his characters and determine their fate.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6435067/site/newsweek (881 words)

	Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Writer Alan Furst
		All of Furst's drafts are typed, rather than handwritten or computer-generated.
		In 1983, Furst received an assignment from Esquire magazine to write a piece about the Danube River.
		When he returned to the United States, Furst started writing novels such as "Dark Star" and "Night Soldiers" that have won him critical laurels and a mounting reputation.
	hrc.utexas.edu /news/press/2006/furst.html (386 words)

	Amazon.com: The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel: Books: Alan Furst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Furst is not interested in the high end spy but rather the every day working spy.
		Because Furst writes only about this period, he is able to fill his novels with the gritty details that make his stories believable.
		Furst seems to be fallng ever more in love with his descriptions of the ambience of pre-war Paris, to the point where passages of the novel read like self-parody.
	www.amazon.com /Foreign-Correspondent-Novel-Alan-Furst/dp/1400060192 (1854 words)

	Review of Alan Furst, Dark Star
		Alan Furst (1991), Dark Star (New York: Houghton Mifflin: 0006511317).
		Furst brings to life better than most historians the world of fear in which so many human beings felt trapped." Reviewing it for Time, Walter Shapiro sees it as a "classic fl-and-white movie that captures the murky allegiances and moral ambiguity of Europe on the brink of war....
		Andre Szara is an Old Bolshevik, a hero of the Russian Civil War, a Jew, an intellectual, a long-time foreign correspondent for Pravda--hence he moves about Europe with ease, from Paris to Ostend to Prague to Berlin--and an occasional helper of the Russian espionage services.
	j-bradford-delong.net /Econ_Articles/Reviews/furst.html (643 words)

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