Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin’s purges, Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934–45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel, a work on a grand scale.
Noční vojáci Série
Tato napínavá špionážní sága vás zavede do Evropy 30. a 40. let 20. století. Sledujte osudy agentů v bouřlivé době před a během druhé světové války. Příběhy jsou plné intrik, zrady a statečnosti v boji proti temným silám. Je to strhující podívaná do zákulisí tajných služeb.
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Dark Star
- 525 stránek
- 19 hodin čtení
In the back alleys and glittering salons of night-time Europe, war is already underway as soviet intelligence and the Nazi Gestapo confront each other in an intricate duel of espionage. On the front line is André Szara, a born survivor – of the Polish pogroms, the Stalinist purges and the Russian civil wars. His only goal is to keep going in a world where betrayal can come at any time. But slowly, inextricably he is drawn into the dark intrigues of pre-war Europe where life is a grey uncertainty of cheap hotel rooms, love affairs that cannot last and friends who have ceased to exist…
The Polish officer
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistance September, 1939. The invading Germans blaze a trail of destruction across Poland. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in the struggle for their nation's survival. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who now must learn a dangerous new role: spymaster in the anti-Nazi underground. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage; he moves through Europe, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. In Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people's will to resist. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black-market bistros with Nazis while uncovering information about German battle plans. And a love affair with a woman of the French Resistance leads him to make the greatest decision of his life.
The World at Night
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
'A wonderfully evocative picture of wartime Paris and the moral maze of resistance' Mail on Sunday
"Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines--from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war--arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins--emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II."--Back cover
Království stínů
- 287 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
Román se špionážní zápletkou, jehož hrdinou je maďarský aristokrat, vystihuje tíživou atmosféru období let 1938-1939 v Evropě. Čtyřiačtyřicetiletý Nicholas Morath, pobývající již osmnáct let v pařížském exilu a pohybující se ve vyšší společnosti, zdánlivě věnuje pozornost pouze své mladé přítelkyni a práci v prosperující inzertní kanceláři, kterou spoluvlastní. Ve skutečnosti je tento přesvědčený antifašista, bývalý důstojník jezdectva z první světové války, velmi znepokojen napjatou politickou situací, stále sílícím vlivem nacistů, stíháním demokraticky smýšlejících obyvatel i rasovou diskriminací. Na základě pokynů svého strýce, hraběte Polányiho, zkušeného pracovníka maďarského vyslanectví v Paříži, který udržuje kontakty s agenty tajných služeb i důstojníky generálního štábu wehrmachtu, cestuje s diplomatickým pasem do západních Čech, na Slovensko, Podkarpatskou Rus, do Maďarska, Rumunska, Rakouska i Belgie, kde plní důležité úkoly a neváhá riskovat svůj život, aby pomohl lidem, ohroženým fašistickou zvůlí.
Krev vítězství
- 289 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
Špionážní román, odehrávající se v různých evropských městech v letech 1940-1941, vypráví příběh ruského emigranta, spolupracovníka britské tajné služby. Ruský spisovatel Ilja Alexandrovič Serebin, který před stalinskými represemi uprchl v roce 1938 do Paříže, má jako výkonný tajemník emigrantské organizace "Mezinárodní ruská jednota" možnost cestovat po Evropě. V listopadu roku 1940 se tento aktivní dvaačtyřicetiletý muž, v mládí bojující v občanské válce v řadách Rudé armády, v zatím neutrálním Istanbulu setkává s uherským aristokratem Jánosem Polányim. Prostřednictvím tohoto bývalého diplomata maďarského vyslanectví v Paříži se jako agent tajné služby zapojuje do protifašistického odboje. S pomocí své francouzské přítelkyně se od prvních dnů roku 1941 odhodlaně pouští do riskantní akce, jejímž cílem je zabránit exportu rumunské ropy do Německa. Při plnění svého poslání na území Francie, Švýcarska, Turecka, Bulharska, Jugoslávie i Rumunska, kde režim generála Antoneska přistoupil k Paktu tří a potlačil puč fanatických příslušníků Železné gardy, prožívá řadu dramatických okamžiků.
Dark Voyage
- 309 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. She is the Santa Rosa; she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmo.But she is not the Santa Rosa. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast - a secret mission, a dark voyage.A desperate voyage. One more battle in the spy wars that rage through the back alleys of the ports, from elegant hotels to abandoned piers, in lonely desert outposts, and in the souks and cafes of North Africa. A battle for survival, as the merchant ships die at sea and Britain - the last opposition to Nazi Germany - slowly begins to starve.A voyage of flight, a voyage of fugitives - for every soul aboard the Noordendam. The Polish engineer, the Greek stowaway, the Jewish medical officer, the British spy, the Spaniards who fought Franco, the Germans who fought Hitler, the Dutch crew itself. There is no place for them in Occupied Europe; they cannot go home.
The Foreign Correspondent
- 288 stránek
- 11 hodin čtení
The next great page-turner from the master of the noir spy novel.
Spies of Warsaw
- 352 stránek
- 13 hodin čtení
An Autumn evening in 1937. A German engineer arrives at the Warsaw railway station. Tonight, he will be with his Polish mistress; tomorrow, at a workers' bar in the city's factory district, he will meet with the military attaché from the French embassy. Information will be exchanged for money. So begins THE SPIES OF WARSAW, with war coming to Europe, and French and German operatives locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage battlefield. At the French embassy, the new military attaché, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a decorated hero of the 1914 war, is drawn in to a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. At the same time, the handsome aristocrat finds himself in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage, a lawyer for the League of Nations. Colonel Mercier must work in the shadows, amidst an extraordinary cast of venal and dangerous characters - Colonel Anton Vyborg of Polish military intelligence, last seen in Furst's THE POLISH OFFICER; the mysterious and sophisticated Doctor Lapp, senior German Abwehr officer in Warsaw; Malka and Viktor Rozen, at work for the Russian secret service; and Mercier's brutal and vindictive opponent, Major August Voss of SS counterintelligence. And there are many more, some known to Mercier as spies, some never to be revealed.
A tale set in World War II Macedonia finds senior police official Costa Zannis working with a resistance cell and secret operatives from various European regions to organize an escape route from Berlin to neutral Turkey. By the author of The Spies of Warsaw.
In the late summer of 1938, as Europe teeters on the brink of war, Hollywood star Fredric Stahl travels to Paris to film for Paramount France. Unbeknownst to him, the Nazis have targeted him as a tool for their political warfare against France, employing bribery and intimidation to undermine French morale. However, Stahl is horrified by the Nazi regime's persecution of Jews and intellectuals, and he secretly joins an informal spy network operating from the American embassy in Paris. From acclaimed author Alan Furst comes a gripping tale filled with romance and rich characters, including the German Baroness von Reschke, deeply entangled in Nazi operations; assassins Herbert and Lothar; Russian actress and spy Olga Orlova; and Hungarian diplomat Count Janos Polanyi. The novel also features the vibrant French cast of Stahl’s film and the captivating women in his life, Kiki de Saint-Ange and émigré Renate Steiner. At its core, the narrative celebrates Paris, the heart of Europe, with its lively streets, bistros, and the resilient Parisians who savor life amidst looming darkness. Furst masterfully captures both the historical turmoil and the enduring spirit of those who dared to resist.
Midnight in Europe
- 320 stránek
- 12 hodin čtení
Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe. Cristián Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces. He agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar in his mission is an unlikely group of allies: idealists and gangsters, arms dealers, aristocrats and spies. From libertine nightclubs in Paris to shady bars by the docks in Gdansk, Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare - and the heroes and heroines who fought back.
A Hero in France
- 256 stránek
- 9 hodin čtení
Once again, Furst succeeds in turning human history into tense, humane - and in parts surprisingly sexy - drama MAIL ON SUNDAY 20160605
Under Occupation
- 224 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
Spying and subterfuge in occupied Paris from one of the great masters of the spy genre. Inspired by the true story of Polish prisoners in Nazi Germany, who smuggled valuable intelligence to the French resistance.
