Transcript: Interview: Alan Furst discusses his new book "Blood of Victory"

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Interview: Alan Furst discusses his new book "Blood of Victory"

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But first, the novels of Alan Furst have been described as "Casablanca, " the movie, that is, between covers: gray streets, smoky corners, rumpled Bogie-men seeking to save a small corner of a seedy world being trampled by strutting tyrants. He is considered the reigning master of the historical spy novel set in grim occupied Europe, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, but especially Paris of the late 1930s. His most recent novel ...

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