Part of Series
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.
Author
Alan Furst is widely recognized as the current master of the historical spy novel. Born in New York, he has lived for long periods in France, especially Paris. He now lives on Long Island. Night Soldiers novels * Night Soldiers (1988) * Dark Star (1991) * The Polish Officer (1995) * The World at Night (1996) * Red Gold (1999) * Kingdom of Shadows (2000) * Blood of Victory (2003) * Dark Voyage (2004) * The Foreign Correspondent (2006) * The Spies of Warsaw (2008) * Spies of the Balkans (2010) * Mission to Paris (2012) * Midnight in Europe (2013) * Under Occupation (2019) Stand-alone novels * Your day in the barrel (1976) * The Paris drop (1980) * The Caribbean Account (1981) * Shadow Trade (1983) For more information, see Wikipedia.
