TY - BOOK AU - Furst,Alan TI - Midnight in Europe: a novel SN - 1400069491 PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Spain KW - Fiction KW - Illegal arms transfers KW - Intelligence service KW - United States KW - Europe KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Spy stories KW - Suspense fiction N2 - Failing to secure American support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War in 1938, a minor Spanish noble travels to Paris, where he promotes the Republic cause before undertaking a mission to infiltrate the Spanish government; The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath ER -