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 'Ideally complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing Furst is in a class of his own' William Boyd
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