Spies of the Balkans: A Novel by Alan Furst

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Audiobook: Balkan Spies by Alan Furst

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Buy the full list of award-winning books www.qksrv.net / audio books: awardwinningaudiobooks.weebly.com Greece, 1940. Not only holiday Greece Northern Greece, Macedonia in Greece, the Balkans, Greece, Thessaloniki. In this old port with its docks and warehouses, dark alleys and Turkish palaces, brothels and taverns, a tense political drama is played out. On the northern border, the greek army, blocked the invasion of Mussolini, rejected divisions in Albania, the firstDefeat by the Nazis, who conquered much of Europe. But Adolf Hitler can not tolerate this freedom comes the invasion, it's just a matter of time, and the people of Thessaloniki can watch and wait. At the center of this drama was Costa Zannis, a police officer, the head of an office, the special cases policy. As the war approached, the lights begin to circulate, the Turkish delegation to the German secret service. There is a British travel writer, a BulgarianUndertaker and much more. Costa Zannis has to deal with them all. And he is quick in the game, providing an escape route from Berlin to Thessaloniki, then a weak security in Turkey, a route from the German prosecutors, detectives and gangsters Hungary Balkans protected. And hunted by the Gestapo. Meanwhile, as war threatened, the erotic life of the city grows passionate. For Zannis means that a British expatriate who owns the local Academy of Ballet, a woman from the dark side of society and the ThessalonikiWife of a ...

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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Spies of the Balkans [HC,2010]

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Blood of Victory: A Novel

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In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil—a last desperate attempt to block Hitler’s conquest of Europe. Serebin’s race against time begins in Bucharest and leads him to Paris, the Black Sea, Beirut, and, finally, Belgrade; his task is to attack the oil barges that fuel German tanks and airplanes. Blood of Victory is a novel with the heart-pounding suspense, extraordinary historical accuracy, and narrative immediacy we have come to expect from Alan Furst.

!1: Best Buy Blood of Victory suffers the disadvantage of following the masterpiece Kingdom of Shadows. While an extraordinary novel by normal standards, it has less attention to minor characters than most Furst novels, and, presumably in an effort to attract popular attention, the plot is the most procedural of his you'll find, even ending with a climactic action sequence!

Never before has Furst's admiration for Eric Ambler been more apparent, with many interesting parallels with A Coffin for Demitrios, not the least of which is the locales.You'll find the usual intertwining of characters and events with other Furst novels and terrific prose, but there isn't as much to savor here as usual. It's almost Furst-lite. There are a couple of plot points which are particularly fuzzy, but there is an interesting exploration into the motivations behind becoming an espionage agent that are more fully attended here than in other Furst novels. The reader is drawn through the difficult process of choosing to fight. Yes, you'll find the usual ambience that enshrouds Furst's characters, but their stage seems a bit bare, as if some of the attention to detail we've come to expect from Furst is missing. A very good novel, but just not his best. on Sale!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Spies, Scandals, and Sultans: Istanbul in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire

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Spies, Scandals, and Sultans is the first English translation of a fascinating and acidly critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid. This is the first time that the text, written by an Egyptian journalist and politician, has been available since 1896. The text of the Arabic original is prefaced with an extensive introduction in which the author's life is discussed and the highly controversial contents of the book are contextualized and evaluated for their accuracy against other contemporary accounts of life in the Ottoman capital.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Balkanized at Sunrise: How a Sci-Fi Author Was Recruited to Keep a President from a War Crimes Indictment

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The Time: the immediate aftermath of the bloody Balkan wars of the 90s.

The Man: a penniless science-fiction author.

The Job: write the official biography of Croatia's President, Franjo Tudjman.

In an effort to keep Tudjman out of the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, the Croatian government hired Joe Tripician, author of "The Official Alien Abductee's Handbook", to pen a state-sanctioned biography for US consumption. The biography, far from a whitewashed piece of propaganda, became a darkly comic and sadly tragic tale of deception, danger, death and desire, where guilt abounds, but responsibility remains elusive.

"Balkanized at Sunrise" is the true story of how Joe navigated between toadying government aides, lying politicians, harassed dissident journalists, and Croatian and Bosnian women looking for a quick visa. It's a fascinating memoir of political, moral, and sexual proportions.

!1: Best Buy I saw the author perform his riveting story in a New York theater, and this book is just as entertaining. There's nothing better than a good spy thriller, and "Balkanized at Sunrise" is an excellent read with a strong comedic voice. It covers Balkan politics and intrigue from the author's unique point of view when he was hired to write the official biography of Croatia's war-time President, Franjo Tudjman.

As the protagonist of the story the author spares no self-criticism, and is equally as brutally honest in his assessment of the political players in the field. The mystery of why he was hired and why he took the assignment is revealed at the end in a most satisfying way.

"Balkanized at Sunrise" is a one-of-a-kind book about a once-in-a-lifetime situation. There are passages that are extremely funny and others that are genuinely moving. I wish it were available in hard copy so I could place it on my bookshelf.

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Red Gold: A Novel

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Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines—from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war—arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins—emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.

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±1±: Best Buy Former film producer Jean Casson returns as the main character, still struggling against man's inhumanity to man, in a France that seems to have given-in to its inevitable domination by Germany. After Furst's earlier "The World At Night", where Casson first chose to rebel, he is now a more skilled agent of resistance. He is tougher and more inventive, yet still vulnerable and human. His loves are real and passionate, and his losses accepted. They come with the war.

In his 1999 novel, "Red Gold", when author Alan Furst describes this good man's descent into poverty and desperation during the horrors of Nazi occupation in Paris, we shiver in the dank and desolate hotel room with him, and we can almost taste the foul soup and moldy bread. Furst is that good a writer. His willingness to allow small victories and moments of humanity provides welcome bits of redemption.

Furst knows about war and rough living, especially for the nomads from eastern Europe, who hate the nazis and fight desperately to escape the hold of mother Russia, whether in occupied France, Bulgaria or Madrid. Through his spare and vivid descriptions of places, and of real people thrust into unbelievable conditions, we learn how it must have happened in France. How people got involved with underground movements, how they compromised their friends, and how they became other people in order to simply survive. By extension, a reader can better understand how danger, violence, compromise, greed and deceit are still happening in different theaters like Iraq and Somalia and Afghanistan.

Furst is a wonderful, inventive writer, who knows how to tell complex stories in a simple, profound way. on Sale!

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Sunday, August 8, 2010

The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy, Book 3)

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"You want to know the truth."

Sonea has learned much since she was but a penniless urchin possessing an awesome untapped ability. She has earned the grudging respect of her fellow novices and a place in the Magicians' Guild. But there is much she wishes she had never learned -- what she witnessed, for example, in the underground chamber of the mysterious High Lord Akkarin . . . and the knowledge that the Guild is being observed closely by an ancient fearsome enemy.

Still, she dares not ignore the terrifying truths the High Lord would share with her, even though she fears it may be base trickery, a scheme to use her astonishing powers to accomplish his dark aims. For Sonea knows her future is in his hands -- and that only in the shadows will she achieve true greatness . . . if she survives.

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±1±: Best Buy The third volume is an enjoyable wrap up to the series. If you enjoyed the first two, you'll like it. It's quite a bit longer than the first two, though.

Like the first two volumes, it has its flaws. There are some interesting characters, and tantalizing hints to the nature of the world outside, but there are also long, pointless sections, and a few things that just don't make sense.

But I like Canavan's characters, perhaps mostly because they seem to actually listen to each other. So much bad fantasy creates conflict from the characters unwillingness or inability to talk to each other. And Canavan's characters, shockingly, also seem to be able to entertain the idea that they might be wrong.

I get so tired of cardboard villains and always-right heroes that this book's conflict between the Guild and the High Lord was quite refreshing. Both sides are interesting characters who, based on their own view of the world, feel that they are working for the greater good of all. They just disagree on methods. I find this vastly more interesting than fighting someone because they are "Evil".

Canavan has also clearly left room for more stories set in this world. If she writes them, I'll read them. I suspect she's going to just keep getting better.
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