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 ...

ENTHUSIASTS for the work of Alan Furst have compared reading his books to watching Casablanca for the first time. There is certainly a glamorous, nostalgic quality to his evocations of wartime Paris ...

“Midnight in Europe” by Alan Furst (Random House, 251 pages, $27) Are you the sort of reader who is on the lookout for books that are engaging, of consistently high quality, and reliably entertaining?

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.

Alan Furst, whom the New York Times rightly called "America's preeminent spy novelist," once commented at a public reading that he writes books "where everybody knows the ending." He is drawn to the ...

Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end. Such is it with this historical spy ...

I read my first Alan Furst novel nine years ago and urged Book World's readers to do themselves a favor and seek out everything this talented writer had in print. Now, having read Furst's 11th and ...

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 ...

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 ...