I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It’s an incredibly romantic and beautiful place. Alan Furst Read Quote
The Levanter’ features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler – who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel. Alan Furst Read Quote
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that? Alan Furst Read Quote
For John le Carre, it was always who’s betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the ’30s, it’s a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that. Alan Furst Read Quote
I was raised on John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series. Something about this genre – hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold – never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst Read Quote
