Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
The story runs from 1933 in a Bulgarian village along the Danube to Moscow to Spain to Paris to the Alsace and back down the Danube to the Black Sea. A young Bulgarian observes the rise of fascism, is recruited to the NKVD, trains a s a spy, is assigned to the communist ‘volunteers’ in the Spanish Civil War, is betrayed and escapes to Paris, is betrayed and imprisoned, is released and escapes to the Vosges becomes a partisan and is betrayed again, escapes and journeys down the Danube to try to save and old friend deep in Soviet controlled Eastern Europe … is saved by an old friend. The nobility of the human spirit ascends above a less than ideal world. Noir, Noir, Noir!
Mr Wheat
