Blood of Victory – Alan Furst
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Title: Blood of Victory
Author: Alan Furst
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 2003
Genre: Thriller
Series Name: Night Soldiers
Position in Series: 07
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Book Description
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I.A. Serebin, an ΘmigrΘ writer who heads the International Russian Union
and edits its literary magazine, is no stranger to war: "Two gangsters,
one neighborhood, they fight," he comments at a dinner party on a yacht
in the Istanbul harbor in the autumn of 1940. Istanbul, to which Serebin
has come to say good-bye to a dying friend, is a haven for spies, arms
dealers, diplomats, and intrigue. Like most of the author’s protagonists,
Serebin is a romantic, a reluctant hero who tries to believe that war
will not really change anything: "Hold fast to life as it should be,
the daily ritual, work, love, and then it will be" is his credo. After
Paris falls to the Germans, he realizes that is impossible. When a French
diplomat’s wife, whom he met and bedded on the freighter that brought
him to Turkey, puts him in touch with a Hungarian spy working with the
British Secret Service, Serebin allows himself to be recruited for a
mission to disrupt the flow of oil from Romania’s Ploesti fields to
German factories–something that has been tried by the British before,
without success. Alan Furst, a master stylist whose novels are peopled
with characters who remain in the reader’s mind long after the last
page is turned, evokes Istanbul’s smoky, spicy, shadowy atmosphere with
the same authenticity he brings to the settings of all his thrillers,
most notably Paris. No one is better at describing both place and players
in the period just before and during World War II; widely hailed as
the successor to Eric Ambler and Graham Greene, Furst proves in his
gripping, compulsively readable seventh novel what a contender he is
for that title.
From Publishers Weekly
Critics who thought Furst’s previous novel Kingdom of Shadows lacked
a clearly linear plot will find much to praise him for in his toothsome
new historical espionage thriller. The novel (named for the Romanian
oil vital to the German war machine) describes a daring operation to
disrupt the flow of that oil from the Ploesti fields in Romania to Germany
by sinking a group of barges at a shallow point in the Danube in early
1941. The motley group attempting this maneuver barely holds together:
its members include a sultry French aristocrat, hounded Russian Jews,
even Serbian thugs. And while the tale features the same period details
as its predecessor, and stretches from Istanbul to Bucharest with detours
in Paris and London, it reaffirms the signature Slavic focus of the
author’s earlier books like Dark Star. This is literally personified
in the novel’s protagonist, the dogged Russian émigré I.A. Serebin,
who has to dodge every kind of secret police from the Gestapo to Stalin’s
NKVD (" `Why, Serge?’ `Why not?’ That was, Serebin thought, glib and
ingenuous, but until a better two-word history of the USSR came along,
it would do"). Diehard Furst fans will appreciate the recurrence of
several secondary characters from Kingdom of Shadows (especially a certain
heavyset Hungarian spymaster). But even newcomers will be ensnared by
Furst’s delicious recreations of a world sliding headlong into oblivion
(wonderfully illustrated by Serebin having to drive a car off a cliff
to escape with his life at the climax).
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