He is now part owner of an advertising agency in Paris, while his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, is a minor diplomat stationed in Paris. Nicholas Morath is an Hungarian aristocrat who fought bravely in the Great War. It is unclear at that time what the fate of Hungary will be if Hitler has his way, but a small group of expatriates would like to insure that events turn out in their country’s favor. ‘ Kingdom of Shadows‘ is set in Paris during 19. He prefers instead to focus his stories on the citizens of those countries whose allegiances and roles in that particular theater of operations are much more contradictory and conflicted. The thrillers of Alan Furst usually take place in the dark days preceding World War II, but while the main participants in that war are of course portrayed, Britain, France, Germany, and the United States do not usually star in Furst’s novels. And a love affair with a woman of the French resistance leads him to make the greatest decision of his life. In Paris, he poses as a Russian poet, then as a Slovakian coal merchant, drinking champagne in black market bistros with Na*zis while uncovering information about German battle plans. In Warsaw, he engineers a subversive campaign to strengthen the people’s will to resist. Beginning with a daring operation to smuggle the Polish National Gold Reserve to the government in exile, he slips into the shadowy and treacherous front lines of espionage that span occupied Europe he moves through Poland, France, and the Ukraine, changing identities and staying one step ahead of capture. Among them is Captain Alexander de Milja, an officer in the Polish military intelligence service, a cartographer who now must learn a dangerous new role: spymaster in the anti Na*zi underground. And a Polish resistance movement takes shape under the shadow of occupation, enlisting those willing to risk death in the struggle for their nation’s survival. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. The invading German Wehrmacht blazes a trail of destruction across Poland.

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