A review by majkia
Dark Star by Alan Furst

5.0

Second in Furst’s Night Soldier series follows a Soviet Jew newspaper man through the rise of Hitler, and the beginning of WWII. At first a spy for the Russians based in Germany when war begins his world is turned inside out and he flees through Europe.

I love how Furst shows what little control people in those circumstances have over their lives. At the mercy of powerful elements shoving them and forcing them this way and that. I also love that Furst downplays the horrors you know are going on around his characters. He keeps the focus on the story rather than the horror.

A terrific series with insights into the mood, realpolitik and underside of the run up to war.