Midnight in Europe : a novel / Alan Furst.
Material type: TextEdition: First editionDescription: 251 pages : map ; 25 cmISBN: 9781400069491; 1400069491Subject(s): Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction | Intelligence service -- United States -- Fiction | Government, Resistance to -- Spain -- Fiction | Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940 -- Fiction | Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: Spy stories. | Historical fiction. | Suspense fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3556.U76 | M53 2014Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath.Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | FIC/FURST (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by Dr. James Weiss | 39844500037326 |
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The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath.
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