A review by tuomosuominen
Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst

4.0

I found "Midnight in Europe" a back to form for Alan Furst. The novel is set around the efforts of the Republican Spanish government's efforts to obtain badly needed armaments during the end of the Spanish Civil War, countered by Franco's Nationalists and their German and Italian supporters. The plot takes the protagonists to the U.S., France, Germany, Poland, U.S.S.R. and Turkey, and in true Alan Furst tradition, involves an international gallery of arms dealers and gangsters, femme fatales, the Parisian Brasserie Heininger, the Hungarian Count Polanyi and naval adventures. Very well researched, and very enjoyable. Recommended!