[quote=""annis""]Been watching a BBC America adaptataion of Alan Furst's
Spies of Warsaw - pretty good, I thought, with plenty of dark shadows and tension, though hard to see David Tennant as anything but a Brit! People rave about Furst and I did try one of his novels a while ago (
Mission to Paris) but was disappointed - the characterization was very flat. Maybe it was an anomaly.[/quote]
Annis, my husband is a big Alan Furst fan, but while he raves about some of his books and they're keepers, he's also DNF his share too. He's not consistently good in the DH's experience, so you could well have read one of the duds.
Les proz e les vassals
Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
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