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 ...

A conversation with the master of the historical spy novel, Alan Furst. Hurrying down the rainswept Rue Condé, Ricard wore a battered felt hat and a khaki-colored trench coat. At forty, he had a ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — To make a great spy novel, all you really need are three things: a rainy night, a rumpled trench coat and moral ambiguity. Tossing in a doomed love affair doesn’t hurt, of course, and ...

Alan Furst, author of the historical spy novel “Hero of France,” returns to France during the period the country was under Nazi occupation in World War II in his latest novel, “Under Occupation.” As ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...