Those titles, too, are listed in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names. An abundance of runners-upīelow the list of my 16 favorites, you’ll find reviews of the full list of the best espionage novels I’ve reviewed with ratings of at least ★★★★☆. I’ve listed them in alphabetical order by the authors’ last names. And I gave every one of these 16 titles a score of ★★★★★ on its review. Though my preliminary list included multiple titles by several of the authors included here, I’ve arbitrarily limited myself to a single title from every writer.
My 15 favorites-well, make that 16: I couldn’t choose-are listed immediately below. One of the twentieth century’s greatest spy novels, Night Soldiers is a thrilling portrait of one man’s extraordinary adventures and of Europe teetering on the brink of the Second World War.Over the past decade, I’ve read and reviewed more than 150 espionage novels (not counting a great many more I never finished). Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo must again take flight, this time to Paris, where he is a small player on the wrong end of a social scene that is simultaneously decadent and doomed. His first mission is to go to Catalonia, where he is soon caught up in the bloody horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Taking a risk on the promise of Communism, he flees to Moscow and is trained as an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service. Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of fascist thugs. ‘Furst never stops astounding me’ Tom HanksĬhosen as one of the 50 Best Modern Crime Novels by Marcel Berlins, crime reviewer, The Timesīulgaria, 1934. ‘Furst’s ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is matchless’ Robert Harris ‘Complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing – Alan Furst is in a class of his own’ William Boyd
0 kommentar(er)
