Furst, Alan
Dark Voyage

Ripped:			 04/10/07
Posted:			 09/09/07

General Information
 Title                 : Dark Voyage
 Author                : Alan Furst
 Read By               : George Guidall
 Copyright             : 2004
 Audiobook Copyright   : 2004
 Genre                 : Fiction
 Publisher             : Recorded Books, Inc
 Abridged              : No

Original Media Information
 Media                 : CD
 Number                : 8
 Condition             : Very Good

File Information
 Number of MP3s        : 8
 Total Duration        : 9:23:43
 Total MP3 Size        : 258.15
 Parity Archive        : Yes
 Ripped By             : semi-one
 Ripped With           : Adobe Audition
 Encoded With          : Adobe Audition/FhG
 Encoded At            : CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 Normalize             : MP3Gain, 89dB
 ID3 Tags              : Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
It's no secret by now that Furst is a superlative chronicler of World 
War II, and his new novel is a splendid addition to an accomplished 
body of work that includes The Polish Officer and the bestselling Blood 
of Victory. His mastery of the atmosphere of that era—its brusque heroes 
and heroines, its sudden explosions of violence, its strange black glamour—is 
the fruit of tireless research and an empathetic imagination. His hero 
this time around is a blunt Dutch sea captain, E.M. DeHaan, whose sturdy 
but aging merchant vessel is pressed into service on behalf of the British 
Navy by the exiled Dutch naval intelligence group in London. Disguising 
his boat as a neutral Spanish freighter, DeHaan somberly and grudgingly 
takes it several times into harm's way, ferrying British commandos on 
a North African raid, taking munitions to the beleaguered British garrison 
on Crete and then, most dangerous of all, on a secret mission to Sweden's 
Baltic coast. The marine details are so authentic the reader can smell 
the oil and the brine, and the characters who come aboard and into the 
captain's life—a valuable Polish naval officer in exile, a Jewish refugee 
who becomes the ship's doctor, a Russian woman journalist fleeing the 
Soviets, with whom DeHaan enjoys a brief and dry-eyed romance—are sketched 
with concise brilliance. The book casts such a spell with its exact 
evocations of time, place and language that one could swear Furst was 
a Brit writing out of his own experience in 1941 rather than an American 
writing today.

