6/26/2023 0 Comments Kingdom of shadows by alan furstAnd as Hitler marches into Prague, Morath's foolhardy country-hopping endeavours grow ever more dangerous. But this is a very dangerous game for Morath and his uncle, involving double dealing between defectors, SS renegades and British politicians. He has been helping his uncle Count Janos Polanyi, a diplomat, in his attempt to stop Hungary drifting into an allegiance with Nazi Germany. Ex-cavalry officer Nicholas Morath (originally from Hungary) returns to his young mistress in Paris's Seventh Arrondissement. It's 1938, and a sinister tide of Fascism is growing in strength throughout Europe. With Kingdom of Shadows, Furst moves his writing on to yet another level: the sense of danger and foreboding that informs this tale of intrigue and betrayal brings the reader the all-too-rare rush of excitement that only the finest novels in this field can convey. It must be daunting for an author to be compared to Graham Greene, John Le Carré and Robert Harris, but Alan Furst's much acclaimed sequence of novels set during the 1930s and World War Two unquestionably demonstrate the virtues of his predecessors: brilliantly detailed backgrounds in which the periods involved are faultlessly conjured up highly impressive plotting and (his ace in the hole) characterisation that has all the richness and complexity of the very best writers.
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