MIDNIGHT IN EUROPE

Alan Fursts new novel is called Midnight in Europe for good reason. It plunges us into a witching hour: 1938 was the time of the Ph oney War, a time when Europe held its breath. Bullets and bombs were yet to fly but, in the smoky backrooms of the continents citie s, secret operatives were locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse.When Midnight in Europe opens, the Spanish Civil War has already begun. But the rest of Europe clings to the hope that war can be averted/ that democracy will win out.