author: Alan Furst
name: Wayne
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2015/04/28
date added: 2015/04/28
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'Midnight in Europe' by Alan Furst is book 13 in his Night Soldiers series. It's a series that takes place in the immediate years before World War II.
I've only read a couple of these. The ones I've read center around normal people who get caught up in the war and do clandestine stuff they normally wouldn't do. This time around it's a Spanish lawyer named Cristian Ferrar. He gets talked into buying arms for one side of the Spanish civil war. This takes him from France into all kinds of dangerous, soon to be Nazi, territory. He is on the side of the Spanish Republic while Germany was siding with the Spanish Nationalists. The Republic needs the weaponry to fight back against a well supplied force. We follow the initial buying of the arms, then the attempt to get them out of a trainyard and on to a ship in Danzig.
The suspense is fairly low key by most thriller standards, but that just makes it play more realistically. Also, the time and locales seem to be well researched. If this were a fantasy novel, I'd make a comment about Furst's worldbuilding skills. His level of detail is rich and immersive. Still, I found this one not as likeable as the last one I read. The plot elements are fine, but my attention wandered a bit. I should really go back and read one of the early entries in the series.
I received a review copy of this ebook from Random House Publishing Group and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.
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