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Spies of the Balkans [LP]

As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to circle--from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for thos...

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Main Author: Furst, Alan
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language:English
Published: Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010.
Edition:Large print. ed.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Fiction.
Greece > History > 1917-1944 > Fiction.
Thessalonikē (Greece) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Spy stories.
Large print books.
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Summary:As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to circle--from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for those hunted by the Gestapo.
Item Description:"Thorndike Press large print basic."
Physical Description:457 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781410428585
1410428583
Author Notes:Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) achieved limited success. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel a Hero of France.

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