Fragments of Noir: Alan Furst

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Thursday, 8 February 2024

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
1998

Friday, 17 November 2023

Spies and journalists were fated to go through life together, and it was sometimes hard to tell one from the other. Their jobs weren't all that different ; they talked to politicians, developed sources in government bureaux, and dug around for secrets.

Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst
2006

Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Feed Upon Itself

Without the daily texture of existence to occupy it, he learned, the human soul wavers, wanders, begins to feed upon itself, and, in time, disintegrates.

Night Soldiers
Alan Furst
1988

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

What Will Happen

Better to do what you want, and then what will happen will happen.

Dark Voyage
Alan Furst
2004

Wednesday, 13 May 2020

State Secrets #2

The Conformist

Fifth Horseman is Fear

The Conversation

Black Book

Black Gravel

Armee Des Ombres

Breach

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Berlin Express

Charlotte Gray

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Hangmen Also Die

Spies of Warsaw

Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Munich

Sunday, 15 December 2019

Paid Him Back

It was his fate, he believed, that life smacked him in the head every chance it got, then paid him back in women.

Alan Furst
Blood of Victory
2002
http://bostonreview.net/fiction/roger-boylan-noir-voyager

Monday, 2 September 2019

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