Spies of the Balkans [sound recording] : a novel / Alan Furst.
Material type: SoundPublication details: [United States] : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2010.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 8 sound discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 144230605X
- 1449825699
- 9781442306059
- 9781449825690
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Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION Furst Ala | Available | 33111006614875 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Furst's books are like Chopin's nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal.
One does not so much read them as fall under their spell."
--Los Angeles Times, on The Spies of Warsaw
Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece--the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and brothels, dark alleys and Turkish mansions, a tense political drama is being played out. On the northern border, the Greek army has blocked Mussolini's invasion, pushing his divisions back to Albania--the first defeat for an ally of the Nazis, who have conquered most of Europe. But Adolf Hitler will not tolerate such defiance: in the spring he will invade the Balkans, and the people of Salonika can only watch and wait.
At the center of this drama is Constantine "Costa" Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special "political" cases. As war approaches, the spies begin to circle, from the Turkish legation, from the German secret service, a travel writer sent by the British, and others--from Bulgaria? From Italy? Nobody knows. But Costa Zannis must deal with them all. And he is soon in the game, securing an escape route--from Berlin to Salonika, and then to a tenuous safety in Turkey, a route protected by German lawyers, Balkan detectives, and Hungarian gangsters. And hunted by the Gestapo.
With extraordinary authenticity, a superb cast of characters, and heart-stopping tension as it moves from Salonika to Paris to Berlin and back, Spies of the Balkans is a stunning novel about a man who risks everything to fight back against the world's evil.
Compact discs.
Duration: 9:30:00.
Title from container.
Read by Daniel Gerroll.
In 1940, with a Nazi invasion looming, police officer Costa Zannis must deal with increased spy activity in the port city of Salonika in northern Greece. With a colorful cast of characters, including German secret police, a British writer, Hungarian gangsters, Alan Furst's latest historical intriguing thriller chronicles the extraordinary account of an ordinary police officer trying to maintain order in one of the most chaotic periods in European history.