One book by this author centers on the discovery of the code name "Dubok," which may indicate that Joseph Stalin had worked as a double agent of the Okhrana, the tsar's secret police.  
One book by this author centers on the discovery of the code name "Dubok," which may indicate that Joseph Stalin had worked as a double agent of the Okhrana, the tsar's secret police.  "Giant silver trays crammed with pink langoustines" are served to the subjects of this author's works, who gather at "table fourteen," the trendy table near the bullet hole in the mirror from the time that gangsters with tommy guns shot up the Brasserie Heininger in Paris. An early work by this author focuses on the career of (*) Khristo Stoianev, a Bulgarian whose unstable allegiances lead him to serve the NKVD, the Spanish republic, the French resistance, and the OSS. Dark Star and Night Soldiers are the first two novels in a thirteen-novel series by, for 10 points, what master of World War II-era spy fiction?
One book by this author centers on the discovery of the code name "Dubok," which may indicate that Joseph Stalin had worked as a double agent of the Okhrana, the tsar's secret police.  
Alan Furst