Night Soldiers

First Edition.
Bound together as a secret brotherhood, they were the soldiers of the night:
Khristo, a Bulgarian peasant from a forgotten village on the Danube, recruited and sent to the NKVD school in Moscow Voluta, a Pole, correct, meticulous, only much later did he emerge as a plant Kulic, the Yugoslav, ultimately perhaps the sanest of them all
Sascha Vonets, clever, very clever, but could even Sascha escape Stalin’s purges?
Ilya Goldman, Romanian, but Jewish and an intellectual too. How could anyone tell whose side he was on?
In an extraordinarily compelling, totally original novel, Alan Furst lays bare the real world of the spy. Night Soldiers recreates for the reader a complex and violent way of life, in a powerful novel which has the vivid atmosphere of Gorky Park, the intricacy of le Carré and the panoramic sweep of Clavell. Not since Day of the Jackal has a writer broken such new ground.