Alan Furst

Alan Furst

Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. He is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, and Dark Voyage. Born in New York, he has lived for long periods in France, especially Paris. He now lives on Long Island, New York. Visit the author’s website at AlanFurst.net.

All Books By Alan Furst

A Hero of France
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A Hero of France
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
  • Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
  • (3374 ratings)
(3374 ratings)
The latest war novel from the New York Times bestselling author and “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) Alan Furst.Alan Furst’s latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris... Read more
Blood of Victory
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Blood of Victory
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: George Guidall
  • Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (2323 ratings)
(2323 ratings)
In the autumn of 1940, Russian emigre journalist I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by an agent of the British secret services for a clandestine operation to stop German importation of Romanian oil–a last desperate attempt to block... Read more
Dark Star
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Dark Star
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alan Furst
  • Length: 17 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: November 26, 2007
  • Language: English
  • (4650 ratings)
(4650 ratings)
Author Alan Furst has written several historical fiction novels. In Dark Star, Andre Szara, a Polish journalist who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, is ordered to complete many tasks of espionage in Paris. Through Szara’s... Read more
Dark Voyage
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Dark Voyage
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Graeme Malcolm
  • Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2004
  • Language: English
  • (3194 ratings)
(3194 ratings)
May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams 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... Read more
Dark Voyage
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Dark Voyage
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: George Guidall
  • Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3194 ratings)
(3194 ratings)
May, 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter streams 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... Read more
Foreign Correspondent
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Foreign Correspondent
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: George Guidall
  • Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3948 ratings)
(3948 ratings)
2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense
Kingdom of Shadows
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Kingdom of Shadows
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: George Guidall
  • Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2011
  • Language: English
  • (3597 ratings)
(3597 ratings)
In spymaster Alan Furst’s most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath–a hugely charismatic hero–becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in Eastern Europe.
Midnight in Europe
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Midnight in Europe
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
  • Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2014
  • Language: English
  • (3660 ratings)
(3660 ratings)
The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author and the “modern-day master of the genre” (Newsday), Alan Furst.From the New York Times bestselling author and the acclaimed “grandmaster” of espionage (Boston Globe)... Read more
Mission to Paris
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Mission to Paris
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
  • Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2012
  • Language: English
  • (6086 ratings)
(6086 ratings)
From the New York Times bestselling author and the “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) comes a gripping novel of espionage and deception in 1938 pre-war Paris.At the center of the intrigue is Hollywood star, Frederic... Read more
Night Soldiers
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Night Soldiers
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alan Furst
  • Length: 18 hours 21 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 03, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (9646 ratings)
(9646 ratings)
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... Read more
Red Gold
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Red Gold
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alan Furst
  • Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 05, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (2660 ratings)
(2660 ratings)
In this sequel to the acclaimed The World at Night, reluctant spy Jean Casson returns in another haunting and atmospheric thriller set in the shadows of occupied Paris. In The World at Night, Alan Furst introduced film producer Jean Casson, who is... Read more
Spies of the Balkans
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Spies of the Balkans
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
  • Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2010
  • Language: English
  • (4646 ratings)
(4646 ratings)
Historical espionage at its finest by the New York Times bestselling author of The Foreign Correspondent , Alan Furst. The bestselling author of The Spies of Warsaw returns with a stunning new WWII-era novel of intrigue, danger, and love set in... Read more
The Foreign Correspondent
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The Foreign Correspondent
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alfred Molina
  • Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2006
  • Language: English
  • (3948 ratings)
(3948 ratings)
2007 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense
The Polish Officer
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The Polish Officer
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alan Furst
  • Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 10, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (4695 ratings)
(4695 ratings)
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to... Read more
The Spies of Warsaw
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The Spies of Warsaw
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Daniel Gerroll
  • Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (6660 ratings)
(6660 ratings)
A new thriller from “the greatest living writer of espionage fiction” — Houston Chronicle Autumn 1937: War is coming to Europe. French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage... Read more
The World at Night
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The World at Night
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Alan Furst
  • Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
  • Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
  • Publish date: March 10, 2008
  • Language: English
  • (4864 ratings)
(4864 ratings)
Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life.... Read more
Under Occupation
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Under Occupation
  • By: Alan Furst
  • Narrator: Peter Noble
  • Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
  • (2938 ratings)
(2938 ratings)
In this thrilling historical spy novel from New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst, two heroic resistance fighters smuggle valuable information to occupied Paris to turn the tide of the World War II and defeat Nazi Germany. Occupied Paris in... Read more

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