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Start with Night Soldiers and continue through all 15 books in the listed reading order.
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Book 1 by Alan Furst
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Ends with Under Occupation
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Book 1:Night Soldiers
Alan Furst
Use the reading order above to move through the series in the intended sequence.
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Book 2:Dark Star
Alan Furst • 1991
Pravda foreign correspondent André Szara, a Jewish survivor of earlier wars, is quietly drafted into the NKVD. Shuttling between Paris, Berlin, and Prague in 1937, he builds a spy network, dodges Stalin’s purges, and...
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Book 3:The Polish Officer
Alan Furst • 1995
As Warsaw falls in 1939, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited into the Polish underground. Tasked first with smuggling the nation’s gold to safety, then with sabotage missions from Paris to Calais and Ukraine, he f...
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Book 4:The World at Night
Alan Furst • 1996
Jean Casson, a French producer of stylish gangster films, tries to keep working when the Germans occupy Paris. As friends are arrested and the net tightens, he’s pushed from cautious neutrality into resistance, riskin...
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Book 5:Red Gold
Alan Furst • 1999
Living under a false name in occupied Paris, the now‑broke Casson is drawn deeper into the resistance. Acting as go‑between for Gaullist networks and French communists, he helps run guns and plan sabotage while trying...
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Book 6:Kingdom of Shadows
Alan Furst • 2000
In 1938–39, Hungarian émigré Nicholas Morath runs a small advertising agency in Paris by day and carries out clandestine missions at the request of his diplomat uncle. Smuggling money, gathering intelligence, and endu...
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Book 7:Blood of Victory
Alan Furst • 2002
Russian émigré writer I. A. Serebin is recruited in Istanbul by British intelligence to attack a crucial target: the flow of Romanian oil feeding Hitler’s armies. His mission—from Bucharest to the Black Sea and Belgra...
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Book 8:Dark Voyage
Alan Furst • 2004
Under the name Santa Rosa, a Dutch freighter secretly serves British naval intelligence in 1941. Captain Eric DeHaan and his mixed crew of refugees and misfits carry hidden detection gear and dangerous cargoes through...
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Book 9:The Foreign Correspondent
Alan Furst • 2006
Italian journalist Carlo Weisz reports for Reuters while quietly editing Liberazione, a clandestine anti‑fascist newspaper smuggled back into Mussolini’s Italy. Hunted by OVRA agents, shadowed by French police and Bri...
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Book 10:The Spies of Warsaw
Alan Furst • 2008
In late‑1930s Warsaw, French military attaché Colonel Jean‑François Mercier runs a small espionage network while posing as a diplomat. Tank plans, border skirmishes, and a dangerous liaison with a League of Nations la...
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Book 11:Spies of the Balkans
Alan Furst • 2010
In Salonika on the eve of the German invasion, senior police official Costa Zannis cleans up political messes for the city’s bosses. As Jewish refugees and Allied agents arrive, he builds escape routes out of the Balk...
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Book 12:Mission to Paris
Alan Furst • 2012
Vienna‑born Hollywood star Fredric Stahl comes to Paris in 1938 to make a film and is targeted by Nazi propagandists who want him to influence French opinion. Reluctantly drawn into counter‑moves by American diplomats...
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Book 13:Midnight in Europe
Alan Furst • 2014
Cristián Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer based in Paris and New York, is asked to help secretly arm the Spanish Republic in 1937. His search for weapons leads through nightclubs, law offices, and ports from Paris to Odessa,...
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Book 14:A Hero of France
Alan Furst • 2016
In 1941 occupied Paris, Resistance leader Mathieu runs a small cell dedicated to escorting downed British airmen across France and into Spain. Working with students, nightclub owners, aristocrats, and farmers, he must...
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Book 15:Under Occupation
Alan Furst • 2019
Crime novelist Paul Ricard is standing on a Paris street when a man fleeing the Gestapo is shot and presses technical drawings into his hand. Trying first to pass them on, then to understand them, Ricard is pulled int...
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Night Soldiers FAQ
What is the best order to read the Night Soldiers series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Night Soldiers.
How many books are in the Night Soldiers series?
There are 15 books currently listed in the Night Soldiers series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Night Soldiers series?
New readers should start with Night Soldiers, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Night Soldiers series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1991 to 2019.