The World at Night – Alan Furst
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Title: The World at Night
Author: Alan Furst
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 1996
Audiobook Copyright: 2005
Genre: Thriller
Series Name: Night Soldiers
Position in Series: 04
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Total Duration: 9:53:41
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Book Description
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From Booklist
With deft texturing and tight storytelling, Furst puts film producer
Jean Casson into perilously exciting jams in German-occupied Paris.
Like most French, Jean Casson avoids the tentacles of collaboration
as best one can. He revives his feature film business under German authority,
an effort that reintroduces him to film industry figures who aren’t
what they now claim. Casson’s first encounter with deception involves
him in a tense train trip to Spain, at the behest, he thinks, of British
intelligence, but the "agent" is unmasked as a freelancing scoundrel.
Chastened, Casson resolves to keep to personal affairs, but then German
intelligence intrudes, coercing him to spy on British airdrops to the
French Resistance. Frightened, he calls on a relative’s contacts with
an authentic British agent, for whom Casson signs up to be doubled against
the Germans. So complicated are Casson’s problems, yet so clearly and
cleverly constructed his extrications, that Furst never unnaturally
forces solutions, demonstrating that he wields that authentic literariness
essential to the better espionage titles. A successful, attention-holding
effort.
From Kirkus Reviews
The throes of masculine existential torment are an unquestionable specialty
for Furst (The Polish Officer, 1995), whose WW II fiction combines so
much broad historical erudition with such genuine humanity that they
ought to be made required reading. Once again, Furst loads the entire
burden of an aspect of the war on the shoulders of a single character,
then scrutinizes that character as he changes. It’s the old rat-in-the-maze
game, played for very high stakes. Jean Casson, at the outset, is a
slightly libertine, slightly dissolute, slightly bankrupt film producer
with several moderately successful but unremarkable movies under his
belt. Above all else, Casson is French, and above being French, he’s
Parisian. Though his tastes may be definitively bourgeois, his heart
is restless, a condition typified by his extremely Gallic womanizing.
On the verge of developing his first real hit–a project called Hotel
Dorado–his life is shattered by the Nazi drive through Belgium and
into Paris. Inhabiting an occupied city filled with repulsive Germans
and ready collaborators, Casson’s long-brewing crisis of purpose gets
him embroiled in an elaborate double-cross that involves the British
Secret Service, furtive trips to Spain and to the French countryside,
and a host of shadowy minor characters, each perfectly captured in Furst’s
lacerating prose. A terrified, reluctant spy, Casson survives mainly
on panache and dumb luck. There’s plenty of sex amid the rubble of a
wrecked Continent, but Casson’s heart truly belongs to Citrine, the
beautiful young actress who’s set to star in Hotel Dorado. At times,
the author seems more concerned with atmosphere than action, but fans
will recognize his gift for making every gesture an expression of character
and allow him to get away with it. The payoff is worth the wait. Furst
has somehow discovered the perfect venue for uniting the European literary
tragedy with the Anglo-American spy thriller. Nobody does it better.
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