Furst, Alan
Kingdom of Shadows

Ripped:			 04/12/07
Posted:                                09/08/07

General Information
 Title                 : Kingdom of Shadows
 Author                : Alan Furst
 Read By               : George Guidall
 Copyright             : 2000
 Audiobook Copyright   : 2003
 Genre                 : Fiction
 Publisher             : Recorded Books, Inc
 Abridged              : No

Original Media Information
 Media                 : CD
 Number                : 9
 Condition             : Excellent

File Information
 Number of MP3s        : 9
 Total Duration        : 9:59:00
 Total MP3 Size        : 274.31
 Parity Archive        : Yes
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 Normalize             : MP3Gain, 89dB
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Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
The desperation of "stateless" people trying to escape the Nazi redrawing 
of the European map in the late 1930s pervades Furst's (Night Soldiers; 
Red Gold, etc.) marvelous sixth espionage thriller. On a rainy night 
in 1938, the train from Budapest pulls into Paris bearing Nicholas Morath, 
a playboy Hungarian expatriate and sometime spy for his uncle, a wealthy 
Hungarian diplomat based in the French capital. Morath, a veteran hero 
of the Great War and a Parisian for many years, now finds himself forced 
to rely on former enemies to try to rescue Eastern European fugitives 
displaced by Hitler's aggression. His eclectic circle includes a Russian 
gangster, a pair of destitute but affable near-tramps, and a smooth-talking 
SS officer. Smuggling forged passports, military intelligence documents 
and cash through imminent war zones, Morath time and again returns in 
thankless triumph to the glittering salons of Paris. Furst expertly 
weaves Morath's apparently unconnected assignments into the web of a 
crucial 11th-hour international conspiracy to topple Hitler before all-out 
war engulfs Europe again, counterbalancing scenes of fascist-inspired 
chaos with the sounds, smells and anxieties of a world dancing on the 
edge of apocalypse. The novel is more than just a cloak-and-dagger thrill 
ride; it is a time machine, transporting readers directly into the dread 
period just before Europe plunged into its great Wagnerian g tterd mmerung. 
This is Furst's best book since The Polish Officer, and in it he proves 
himself once again a master of literary espionage.

