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1 online resource (251 pages) : illustration |
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| Summary |
Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun. Alan Furst, whom Vince Flynn has called "the most talented espionage novelist of our generation," now gives us a taut, suspenseful, romantic, and richly rendered novel of spies and secret operatives in Paris and New York, in Warsaw and Odessa, on the eve of World War II. Cristian Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish emigre, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic's beleaguered army--an effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism. Joining Ferrar in this mission is a group of unlikely men and women: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats and spies. From shady Paris nightclubs to white-shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies battle the secret agents of Hitler and Franco. And what allies they are: there's Max de Lyon, a former arms merchant now hunted by the Gestapo; the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a beautiful aristocrat with a taste for danger; and the Macedonian Stavros, who grew up "fighting Bulgarian bandits. After that, being a gangster was easy." Then there is Eileen Moore, the American woman Ferrar could never forget. |
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Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government. |
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1870-1945 |
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Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction.
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Government, Resistance to -- Spain -- Fiction.
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Spaniards -- France -- Fiction.
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Government, Resistance to. |
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Illegal arms transfers. |
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Spaniards. |
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- History -- Fiction.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction.
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Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
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Europe. |
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France. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Spain. |
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Spy stories.
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Suspense fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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Spy fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Downloadable e-Books. |
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Electronic books. |
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Spy fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Furst, Alan. Midnight in Europe New York : Random House, [2014] 9781400069491 (NjBwBT)bl2014015728 (OCoLC)858366120 |
| ISBN |
9780679604235 : $48.00 |
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0679604235 : $48.00 |
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