Dark Star - Night Soldiers, Bk 2 Author:Alan Furst Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris. As deputy dir... more »ector of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. « less
If you've read most of Frust's novels, as I have, you know the ones he writes of communist spies are full of paranoia and deception. Sometimes this can be confusing. You don't know who the characters might be, or which team they are on, even if they are on their own team's side. This is true even if you do have a scorecard.
This one was a bit better than most of his communist spy stories. But occasionally, I lost track of where the story line was going. But that's communism for you.
Some of this story was interesting but I ultimately did not finish the book, although I came close to it. Did not hold my attention as much as I had hoped. WWII story, some settings were familiar to me, but ultimately too drawn out/too long.