![]() ![]() But a risky love affair threatens to jeopardise everything.įurst's strengths are without a doubt that minute attention to detail and the ability to pull the reader into the lives of the ordinary people whose day-to-day existence is thrown into chaos by the uncertainty and randomness of war. Zannis helps defeat the Italians in Macedonia, then becomes embroiled in a plot to smuggle Jews out of Germany to Istanbul. Costa Zannis is the chief of detectives in Salonika, a city firmly in the sights of the Germans. The focus of SPIES OF THE BALKANS is the politically unstable region across Greece, Turkey and Macedonia. ![]() The UK and the USA are very much in the background in Furst's books, as he roams central and eastern Europe, portraying the realities of war on ordinary people. The books, too, make it abundantly apparent just how vast the theatre of war was during the second world war. ![]() You think you have a breath-taking over-view of them – then you realise you can't take your eyes off a scene that's been worked in intricate detail. Alan Furst's spy novels are like rich, medieval tapestries. ![]()
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