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Furst phoned this one in. The characters, settings and dialogue are sketchy and formulaic, even as he explains things any dunderhead would know and repeats plot points in case we missed them the first time. A very disappointing effort from an author who's given me much entertainment in the past. This barely earns two stars.
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Mar 25, 2014
Jessica
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Furst is one of my favorite novelists, and while his work tends to follow familiar grooves (a non-spy drawn into war work by the demands of the times, staying one step ahead of malevolent forces, an intense love affair doomed to failure), it remains perfect in tone to capture the runup to WWII. I like his choice of lawyer-as-protagonist here, particularly in the way Ferrar uses his professional skills in unconventional ways.
Furst's thirteenth espionage novel, while enjoyable as always, covers territory that is, by now, quite familiar in his work. Set during the first half of 1938, its plot revolves around the efforts to supply arms to the ragtag Nationalist army in Spain. Christian Ferrar is a suave and successful Parisian lawyer whose family left Spain for France when he was a child. He is recruited by the Nationalist embassy to assist with various clandestine efforts to procure anti-aircraft guns from Czechoslova
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Apr 02, 2014
Steve Anderson
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