Product Description: In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath—a hugely charismatic hero—becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.From the Hardcover edition.

In 1938 Paris, Nicholas Morath, a Hungarian aristocrat and charismatic former cavalry officer, is recruited by his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, to try to bring down the Hungarian fascists, as Europe moves ever closer to all-out war under the shadow of Hitler and the Nazi war machine. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

A fictional chronicle of the Holocaust revolves around a canny Jewish boy and his family in war-torn Budapest

Product Description: "Don't you dare call me a Jew," shouts Lionel Miller to a group of Arrow Crosses, native Fascists, searching a train in Budapest, Spring 1944. In fact, he is a leader of the Jewish Underground. One of the Arrow shouts, "Look, the Zhid's wearing a cross...read more

Christian by faith and Jewish under the law, Katalin struggles with her dual identity in a Hungary caught up in World War II and its aftermath. She and Istvan, a Jew, fall in love. They struggle with their desire for marriage and to have a child in the midst of the increasing threat from Nazi violence. Istvan is deported to a concentration camp; four months later Kata and family seek refuge with Christian friends. Some are paralyzed by fear; others, acting on their faith, risk their lives to protect them. Even the welcomed liberation by the Russian Army poses its dangers. With the war over, the arduous attempts to survive in a devastated country and to assemble the family merge into a new struggle: power is shifted toward Communism and society is even more polarized than ever. Confronted with the resurgence of hatred, Katalin needs to come to terms with her faith and identity, to make sense of her survival out of the Holocaust and to find a direction for her life. In her soul-searching, she recalls Parsifal's quest for the Grail - a recurring motif in the novel - and knows that her own quest will continue.

Gerda, the former mistress of both Adolf Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg, a Hungarian Jew whose once great beauty is fading in a Brooklyn apartment, Rella, her ugly and gullible daughter, and Jack, an upstairs neighbor, share an extraordinary past