Article: Alan Furst: spies, sex and memory.(ArtsLife)

Byline: Mary Ann Gwinn; Seattle Times book editor

Who would brave the traffic of Seattle's suburbs on a balmy weekday evening to show up for an author reading? The devotees of Alan Furst.

At Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park last Thursday, the world-famous spy novelist read from the paperback version of his novel "The Spies of Warsaw" (Random House, $15). The independent bookstore was hopping u in its main gathering spot, local student authors were reading aloud from their final works of the year. But in the reading "den" 90 Furst fans, drawn by virtually no publicity other than the bookstore calendar, listened to a writer who truly has lived the ...

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