Alan Furst

Alan Furst is my favourite author, so I find it difficult to review his books objectively. There’s just something about the way he sets a scene that has me hooked by the end of the first paragraph. And I don’t come up for air until I’m done. It’s as if I was a spy in the 1930s, or wished I was.

Midnight in Europe, while maybe not one of his best, ticks off all the boxes of a classic Furst novel: diverse characters facing tough decisions, gritty locales, historical context, sex, even...