Night Soldiers Author:Alan Furst Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local Fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalin's purges, Khristo flees to Paris. The book masterfully re-creates the European worl... more »d of 1934 - 45: the struggle between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for Easter Europe, the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris, and guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. This is a scrupulously researched panoramic movel, a work on a grand scale.« less