Enough gloom: the wonderful spy novelist Alan Furst, who has no competitors since John Le Carre turned into Michael Moore, has a new book out. He deals with the period before World War II. Think "Casablanca" (yes, he's that good, that romantic, and the dialog is also that good). Think, as Libby says, "rain at night in the city". Historically he has perfect pitch-- uncanny that a young man should have such a feel for the period, like Patrick O'Brian's for the Napoleonic wars.
Read an interview here.
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