Pros: Set in a fascinating period in history. Cons: Confusing plot, weak characterisation, irrelevant scenes.
Im a voracious reader, but I suppose that statement would hardly surprise anyone who even vaguely knows me. Im a fast reader and I enjoy quite a wide variety of sub-genres within the wider crime / mystery genre. So its rare for me to come ...
Pros: Excellent spy thriller about exiles' resistance to German Nazi takeover in Italy. Cons: Carlo Weisz's love for Christa von Schirren intersects and trumps the espionage theme.
Carlo Weisz, international foreign correspondent, links the action in Madrid, Paris and Milan in Europe in late 1938 and 1939, particularly the exiled Italian Resistenza, in an unusual novel by Alan Furst. Why unusual? Four reasons. First, the ...
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