Stealing military secrets, plotting a presidential assassination, spreading disinformation: It’s all in a day’s work in these recent titles. By Andrew Ervin Alan Furst’s latest follows five months in ...

Blood of Victory by Alan Furst Random House, 237 pp., $24.95 IT CAN BE A PLEASING HAPPENSTANCE how one becomes acquainted with an author–a book review, an appealing title perhaps, but more often ...

Historical espionage author Alan Furst is coming to Tulsa in December to accept the Tulsa Library Trust’s 2011 Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. Tulsa City-County Library is offering ...

Alan Furst, read by Daniel Gerroll. Simon & Schuster Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, nine hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-44236816-3 Furst’s latest historical espionage novel explores the ominous landscape of ...

Alan Furst, historical spy novelist, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios during the book tour for “Blood of Victory, September 26, 2002. This is a first-time podcast.

Set in Greece in 1940, this powerful WWII thriller from Furst (The Spies of Warsaw) focuses on Costa Zannis, a senior Salonika police official known for his honesty and ability to settle matters ...

Here's the paradox. If you know any of Alan Furst's previous six novels set in Europe during World War II, you won't want to hear anything more except that he's got a new book out, and you'll buy it ...

America's pre-eminent spy novelist Alan Furst took a course in Victorian literature when he was a sophomore in college and it changed everything. One of the writers he studied in that course was ...

John Varley (1947-2025), Hugo and Nebula Award winning science fiction novelist, who died on December 10, 2025 at the age of 78, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios ...

I interviewed mystery author Alan Furst today at BEA. Furst is the author of ten historical spy thrillers set in Europe in the 30s and 40s. He was a genuine delight—at the end of the interview, he ...

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