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Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
This book marks a departure of sorts for Alan Furst - moving from the salons of Western and Central Europe to the altogether more unstable terrain of the Balkans - an area yet to be explored in his fiction. In other respects, however, we're on classic Furst ground, following the double dealings of shady ...Show more
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
$28.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: very good
Salonika, 1940. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in th ...Show more
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris. There, amidst the poverty and difficulty of emigre life, they joined the Italian resistance, founding an underground press that smuggled news ...Show more
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
September, 1939. The invading Germans blaze a trail of destruction across Poland. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in the struggle for their nation's survival. Among ...Show more
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
$26.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistanceSeptember, 1939. The invading German Wehrmacht blazes a trail of destruction across Poland. Warsaw is surrounded. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement take ...Show more
The Spies Of Warsaw by Alan Furst
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An Autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attache from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins ...Show more
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
$39.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
An Autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the French embassy's military attache. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins The ...Show more
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
THE TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH: 'MAGNIFICENT' 'Gripping... the twists and intrigue keep coming' Observer'More real and rounded than the vast majority of his contemporary literary counterparts' Sunday Times'As ever, Furst vividly evokes a sense of time and place' Mail on Sunday (Must-Read Books of the ...Show more
Under Occupation by Alan Furst
$35.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: near fine
Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. ...Show more