{"product_id":"9781474611626-night-soldiers","title":"Night Soldiers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Ideally complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing; Furst is in a class of his own' William Boyd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing - Alan Furst is in a class of his own' William Boyd \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Furst's ability to recreate the terrors of espionage is matchless' Robert Harris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Furst never stops astounding me' Tom Hanks\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChosen as \u003ci\u003eo\u003c\/i\u003ene of the 50 Best Modern Crime Novels\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eby Marcel Berlins, crime reviewer, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBulgaria, 1934. Khristo Stoianev sees his brother kicked to death by a gang of fascist thugs. Taking a risk on the promise of Communism, he flees to Moscow and is trained as an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service. His first mission is to go to Catalonia, where he is soon caught up in the bloody horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo must again take flight, this time to Paris, where he is a small player on the wrong end of a social scene that is simultaneously decadent and doomed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the twentieth century's greatest spy novels, \u003ci\u003eNight Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling portrait of one man's extraordinary adventures and of Europe teetering on the brink of the Second World War. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'Alan Furst's mastery of the espionage novel puts him beyond any would-be rival' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'A spy novel, a war story, an adventure, a survivor's tale - \u003ci\u003eNight Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e is all this and more' \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944521150561,"sku":"9781474611626","price":11.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_8160755_jpg.jpg?v=1706746296","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474611626-night-soldiers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}