People You've Never Met

      When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.

Alan Furst
Red Gold (Night Soldiers #5)
1999

More Fragments of Wartime

Too Close to the Enemy

Babylon Berlin

Ivan's Childhood

 Enigma

Silence De La Mer

Enemy at the Gates

Tranzit

13 Minutes

Good

Third Man

The Counterfeiters

Spies of Warsaw

Ashes and Diamonds

Hitler - Last 10 days

Fragments of wartime #3

 Anthropoid

Paths of Glory

Labyrinth of Lies

Babylon Berlin

La Silence Du Mer

Odessa File

The Man with the Iron Heart

Amen

Copenhagen

The Good German

Counterfeiters

Imitation Game

Spies of Warsaw

Looking for Somebody

        When you're looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you've never met, you are getting close.

Alan Furst
Red Gold
1999

Tomorrow We Die

                                        Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Alan Furst

Night Soldiers

1988

An Untroubled Believer

            ...... it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul ; the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins - duplicity, for example- in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He'd grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that.

Alan Furst
Spies of Warsaw
2006

To Pretend

                              One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Alan Furst
The World at Night
1996

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Dark Voyage

              He was used to the heat, the effects of a full day's sun on the ship's steel plate and come to that, used to these ports, hellholes always .............

                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

              In the rue Raisuli, Arab music from a dozen radios, and two Spanish Guardia, in their Napoleonic leather hats, strolling along in a way which told the world they owned the street.

Dark Voyage
Alan Furst
2004

God Had Punished

          He hurried along , head down, through the rainy streets, through the fog that pooled at the base of the park railings. He trotted down the metro stairs, left at the other end of the platform, reversed direction, doubled back, at last sensed he was unobserved and headed towards the river.

        Please be Spring. If nothing else, that. The trees at the entrances to the metro , where warm air vented from down below, always bloomed first.................... Privately more than one person in Paris - and in Prague, in Warsaw and in Copenhagen - thought that God had punished Europe for setting itself on fire.

The World at Night - Alan Furst 1996

Hardboiled by City

Many of the great authors define parts of their stuff by city/region

Willeford-Miami
Thompson-Texas
Moseley-L.A
Goodis-Philadelphia
Pelecanos-D.C
Hammett-San Francisco

Higgins-Boston
D Raymond-London
Furst-Paris
Bukowski-L.A
Lee Burke-Louisiana

Block-Manhattan
Himes-Harlem
Chandler-L.A
Leonard-Detroit
Dennis Lehane-Boston
R Macdonald-Santa Barbara

Espionage Noir

           Two alternatives worth checking out are Alan Furst's wartime set series of Novels such as The Polish Officer, Night Soldiers and Red Gold and the BBC tv series Cambridge Spies.