Spies of the Balkans

“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 inva...