Alan Furst Books in Order (Night Soldiers, Spies of the Balkans, Dark Star)

Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels, born in New York in 1941. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1960 and from Penn State in 1967, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles before becoming a full-time writer. His first published books didn’t spark a big interest among readers, achieving limited success.

He struck a chord with the reader with Night Soldiers in 1988, which led to a succession of related titles. He is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. 

How to read Alan Furst’s Books in Order?

The Night Soldiers Series in Order

The Night Soldiers novels are espionage thrillers taking place in Europe, starting in the 1930s and through World War II. For more details, go visit our article concerning the Night Soldiers reading order.

1. Night Soldiers (1988)
2. Dark Star (1991)
3. The Polish Officer (1995)
4. The World at Night (1996)
5. Red Gold (1999)
6. Kingdom of Shadows (2000)
7. Blood of Victory (2003)
8. Dark Voyage (2004)
9. The Foreign Correspondent (2006)
10. The Spies of Warsaw (2008)
11. Spies of the Balkans (2010)
12. Mission to Paris (2012)
13. Midnight in Europe (2014)
14. A Hero of France (2016)
15. Under Occupation (2019)

The Roger Levin Series in Order

1. Your Day in the Barrel (1976) – Roger Levin is an enterprising young man in business for himself. In fact, his is a kind of modern American success story, although it just happens that his business is dealing dope around the various colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. So when he is stopped, his van searched and his “merchandise” discovered by the Pennsylvania police, he has no choice but to appear to cooperate when offered his freedom in exchange for complicity in an apparent CIA murder scheme. B
2. The Paris Drop (1980) – In the world of commercial espionage there are only buyers and sellers. What have you got and what do you want for it? Surely, this is no place for Roger Levin, who’s making a simple delivery-$100,000 in untraceable bills to Paris, no questions asked. But the City of Light proves a dangerous if romantic place, and Levin finds himself caught among Arab assassins, expatriate wheeler-dealers, double agents, and femme fatales, who know where to sell a heart after they’ve stolen it.
3. Caribbean Account (1981) – Roger Levin is hired to deliver 500,000 to an unknown individual in Miami; a little matter of an heiress in thrall to a bizarre cult — nothing that unusual. But the drop, which is to take place in a dressing room below the Orange Bowl, does not go off as planned. Somebody dies and the money disappears.

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• Shadow Trade (1983) – Guyer, a former intelligence officer dismissed by the Central Intelligence Agency, sets up his own business in clandestine operations and becomes caught up in the intrigue, ruthless politics, duplicity, and power games of private intelligence companies

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