With a remarkable cast of operatives, SPIES OF THE BALKANS is a brilliant espionage novel from Alan Furst. The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders, and soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance, and in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything. In this 11th book in Alan Fursts Night Soldiers series (following The Spies of Warsaw, Mussolinis forces have retreated, but German sights are fixed. And as the situation in Germany worsens, Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot - smuggling Jews to Istanbul, through the back door of Europe. The spy writer Alan Fursts mastery of the passions and politics of the Second World War is. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out.

Mussolini's forces have retreated - for now - but German sights are fixed firmly on the region. In the port city of Salonika, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. Spies of the Balkans: A Novel Alan Furst Random House Publishing Group, Fiction - 304 pages 23 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia, Zannis returns to a city holding its breath. And as unknown ships and British 'travel writers' trickle through the port, he is a man very much in demand. Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective - a man with contacts high and low, in the Balkans and beyond. In the backrooms of barbers, envelopes change hands, and in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers. With a remarkable cast of operatives, SPIES OF THE BALKANS is a brilliant espionage novel from Alan Furst. To the bustle of tavernas and the smell of hashish, a secret war is taking shape. SPIES OF THE BALKANS By Alan Furst Random House, 26, 268 pages There is no current novelist who captures the turbulence, ambivalence, chaos and turmoil of Europe in the years just before World.

Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst