Books by Alan Furst
![Spies Of The Balkans[Random House] (2010)](/alan-furst/spies-of-the-balkansrandom-house/cover)
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review 1: Boring! Boring! Boring! This is a historical espionage/spy novel, but it isn't until close to the end of the book that the action picks up--and even then it's like a big fireworks display that just goes poof...and never becomes what it was meant to be. Until then, author Alan Fur...
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review 1: Sounds like an interesting plot – It is 1938 when a Hollywood movie star travels to Paris to make a film and the Nazis want to use him for their own propaganda. Although a very descriptive Paris of that time but it becomes tedious as does the characters and the filmmaking. It jus...
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review 1: Elegant way to learn a little about Greece in the Second World War. Structured in a low-key, episodic style, this never picks up into an intricate thrill ride of a spy story, but I enjoyed the protagonist Zannis and his mountain sheep dog Melissa. Zannis is a 'fixer' in the city ...
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review 1: I don't read much fiction but heard about this author and wanted to give it a shot. I read somewhere that this one was a good place to start. To me, the book started slowly. Part of that may be that it's broken into four long chapters so it seemed to take forever to really get...