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Midnight in Europe (2014)

av Alan Furst

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The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath. 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.… (mer)

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markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |

Seemed a fairly paint by numbers spy novel, a little flat except for the end. (

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charlie68 | Jun 28, 2022 |

A quick and good read but a lot of fluff. Should have spent more time on being behind the lines than with the Marquesa. AF has written better ones. (

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JBreedlove | May 19, 2022 |

The usual suspects are here. Count Polanyi and the vizslas play a small but timely role, even good families have Nazi sympathizer cousins. S. Kolb shows up momentarily. Romance plays it's usual role. Max de Lyon is central to this story. He's flush with cash and ready to bribe anyone to get the arms into forbidden Spain. He's supplying arms to the war in Spain even though the Republicans are clearly losing. And of course much of the action takes place in Paris, Brasserie Heininger with it's bullet hole makes a predictable appearance as does Le Cygne. Most important there is the eventual appearance of the Santa Cruz, the tramp steamer, which was the central character in The Dark Voyage. What's new in Midnight in Europe is a Catalan lawyer. Even lawyer's are getting into the death spiral that is Europe. Things continue to look bad. This is just one of the last ditch efforts to avoid the unavoidable. (

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Ed_Schneider | Dec 11, 2021 |

historical fiction (spies & Nazis, adventure and romance). A patron recommended Furst to me (because I recommended in the Garden of Beasts, which I have not actually read but figured you couldn't go wrong with Erik Larson); however I think I prefer my historical stories to be true. I stopped around page 32, since I wasn't invested in any of the characters or multiple plotlines.

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Mr. Furst tells galloping good stories, and “Midnight in Europe” is one of them. But he never needs to end his books on notes of tragedy. History has done the job for him.

tillagd av melmore | ändraNew York Times, Janet Maslin (Jun 23, 2014)

Alan Furst’s novels have invoked glowing comparisons with Graham Greene for his idiosyncratic recreations of 1930s Europe; Midnight in Europe shows there is not the slightest diminution in his masterly command.

tillagd av melmore | ändraFinancial Times, Barry Forshaw (May 23, 2014)

Furst owns the dark blanket that covers Europe between the two world wars. His latest is a satisfying, thought-provoking read.

tillagd av melmore | ändraKirkus Review (May 7, 2014)

As usual, Furst manages to capture the fragile, itinerant nature of European life during the interwar period, dropping in hints of the horror to come, but this is one of his less memorable efforts.

tillagd av melmore | ändraPublishers Weekly (Apr 21, 2014)

There’s a certain sense of fatedness that emerges in the 13 espionage novels Alan Furst has written about Europe before and during World War II, even if it’s never quite enunciated in their wry, reticent storytelling

tillagd av danielx | ändraNew York Times, Charles Finch

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Alan Furst	—	primär författare	alla utgåvor	beräknat
Gerroll, Daniel	Berättare	medförfattare	vissa utgåvor	bekräftat
Noble, Peter	Berättare	medförfattare	vissa utgåvor	bekräftat

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Midnight in Europe

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Cristián Ferrar

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Marquesa Maria Cristina

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"The lamps are going out all over Europe.
We shall not see them lit again in our time."
-Sir Edward Grey,
British foreign secretary,
on 3 August 1914, the eve
Of the First World War

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On a soft, winter evening in Manhattan, the Fifteenth of December, 1937, it started to snow; big flakes spun lazily in the sky, danced in the lights of office buildings, then melted as they hit the pavement.

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The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath. 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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