by Alan Furst · Dom Quixote · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722045339
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«O Mundo na Escuridão» is the spy novel by Alan Furst, published by Dom Quixote in paperback (320 pages, in Portuguese).
Paris, 1940. Film producer Jean Casson tries to preserve his elegant life under the German occupation thanks to his money and contacts, but his idealism pushes him to collaborate with the British secret service. The mission becomes complicated and risks his career, his love, and his life. Espionage and moral dilemmas in occupied France.
Fourth installment of Alan Furst's Night Soldiers series, originally published in 1996 as 'The World at Night'. This Portuguese edition appeared in 2013.
For readers of historical and spy fiction about the Second World War, in the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carré.
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels. Furst has been called "an heir to the tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene," whom he cites along with Joseph Roth and Arthur Koestler as important influences. Most of his novels since 1988 have been set just prior to or during the Second World War and he is noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944.
