Night Soldiers

by Alan Furst

The soldiers of the night were a secret brotherhood: Khristo, a Bulgarian peasant; Voluta, a Pole who later emerged as a plant; Kulic, a Yugoslav; the clever Sascha Vonets; and Goldman, a Roumanian Jew. The novel describes the complex and violent way of the life of a spy and is set in Russia, 1934 - 1945. Alan Furst has published four novels - a trilogy of murder mysteries and "Shadow Trade", set in New York City.

• ISBN10: 0307488810
• ISBN13: 9780307488817
• Publish Date: 19 November 2008 (first published 23 June 1988)
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Random House
• Format: eBook
• Language: English

Reviews

[brokentune]

I have no idea what it was about this book but it was not for me.

The book was off to a great start with its unusual setting for a spy story that starts in rural Bulgaria, but then it seemed to loose its way for me.

It may have been Furst's attempt at writing a kind of panopticon that would show the different theatres of world history that were affected by the story in parallel that didn't work for me, or maybe it was because Furst's writing reminded me of Ken Follett's (who tried to pull of a similar overview of all the events in different locations in Fall of Giants ... God, I hated that book!) that put me off, but I just could not get invested in the story ... or the characters.

So, in the end, I finished the book, shrugged, and moved on.