alan furst night soldiers series in order

I'm looking for something that doesn't require me to think as a writer. Otherwise you work yourself to death.ĭo you consciously not think of the period? On your day off do you read modern magazines, modern fiction?ĪF NFL, baby. I don't work Sunday any more… The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. When I start writing I do two pages a day, if I'm gonna do 320 that's 160 days. It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. They're still hard to write, I still work very hard on these things it's the only way I can do it… I find the kind of book I write now to be infinitely more entertaining. My books are now more like 320, but I don't want to write that Big Book anymore, I don't like big books. It went to 1945 it was 600 pages in manuscript. I thought I was writing a panoramic spy novel of the thirties and forties. I had to do travel pieces I'd write for a while, go do a travel piece, come back, write some more. By the time I went to Night Soldiers I had a heart's passion… Night Soldiers took a long time 'cause I had no money but I was living in Paris at that point. … When I started to do these kinds of books – I had written four trashy books that were complete failures, 'cause I had nothing to write about. More from Sean Elder's interview with Alan Furst, author Midnight in Europe, the latest in his bestselling Night Soldiers series.Īre your books getting shorter, or is that my imagination?ĪF They got shorter after the first three big ones.

Alan furst night soldiers series in order