Alan Furst: By the Book. The author of “Mission to Paris” and, most recently, “Midnight in Europe” is a great fan of John le Carré’s Karla trilogy.

Acclaimed Spy Novelist Alan Furst Takes Up Nazi Resistance In 1942 Paris. ... All of the books return to Furst’s core interest. ‘They are anti-fascist books,’ he says.

Alan Furst is the hot new literary thing, the fiction writer of the moment, the subject of sizzling reviews and glowing interviews in The New York Times and New York magazine, plus National Public ...