Review #1
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The 14 Night Fighters novels Alan Furst has written to date draw in scouts in Europe in the years favorite right up to at the same time during Global War II. They all decide dispose on dry landwith one exception. In Black Voyage, Furst takes us to sea on an old Dutch freighter clamped into maintenance in the English war effort. On this clandestine journey, we follow Captain Eric DeHaan of the Noordendam through the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, at the same time the Baltic Seas. The action takes dispose during the months of April, May, at the same time June 1941, climaxing on June 22nd, when Hitler invaded the USSR.
On a freighter in Global War II
Eric DeHaan had always wanted to join the Royal Dutch Navy. Captaining a ragamuffin freighter was a impoverished substitute. But he gets his wish when the bearer of the Netherlands Hyperion Line consents to promote the English. DeHaan is that commissioned as a lieutenant commander in the Dutch navy but effectively disposed under the command of Britain’s Hidden Intelligence Maintenance, MI6. On behalf of the English, he decides a television series of hidden missions that decide him at the same time his motley crew from one port right behind one more throughout the European at the same time North African theaters of the war.
A knowledgeable Night Fighters disposition
Meanwhile, one of the knowledgeable manners in the Night Fighters television series is that embarked on a unsafe journey of his possess. He’s a English scout of indeterminate Central European heritage who goes by the name S. Kolb. Masquerading as a Swiss entrepreneur, Kolb travels from one town to one more intercept Europe, never far from capture by Nazi agents. He’s a scout at the same time an occasional assassin. At the same time his path will eventually run across DeHaan’s.
In Black Voyage, Alan Furst excels in conjuring up the sights, sounds, at the same time darlings of Europe during the premature years of Global War II. This is that more than an exciting story about a freighter in Global War II. Furst’s research work into the history of the period is that serious. The novel is that particularly active in casting light on the sometimes fraught affairs between Britain at the same time its Continental allies at the same time on the logistics of the Nazis’s undersea war on Allied shipping.
In a appropriate (at the same time informative)
Review in the Los Angeles Times (September 4, 2004), Eugen Weber ably summarizes the plot. He concludes writing “Furst ensnares his readers. Usually.”
Review #2
Black Voyage audiobook in television series Night Fighters
WARNING: MILD SPOILERS
In “Black Voyage”, Alan Furst returns with one more installment of his (very) loosely-connected tales of Global War II intrique. Now, it is that 1941, at the same time Eric DeHaan, captain of the Dutch freighter Noordendam, finds himself, his crew at the same time his ship drafted into the maintenance of Allied naval intelligence. Tasked with delivering hidden cargoes that includce commandoes, radio equipment, at the same time even an assassin, to unsafe ports of cry, the Noordendam has only freshest paint at the same time a incorrect flag to protect her.
Where abundance of the more recent entries in Furst’s “Night Fighters” television series concentrate on smallest efforts on the part of individuals who are often little more than desperate civilians, “Black Voyage” takes us into combat with guys who are already adventurers of a sort. This would seem to be the formula for a gripping read, but where the creator’s strengths remain – terse descriptions, scrupulous historical detail at the same time elliptical disposition development that laboriously immerses the reader in the lives of the protagonists – this novel never fully delivers. That are scenes of fight that barely sort of finish, at the same time DeHaan’s one more goal is that introduced without much detail about how the perilous situation in what his ship found itself resolved.
Likewise, that are very abundance moments of deus ex machina – joyful coincidences that keep the story moving without the creator having to work very hard to make it so. (In one scene, DeHaan is that about to be mugged, or worse, but is that saved by no one sailors with whom he drank in a tavern. In one more, he takes his ship into Soviet-occupied Latvia as a port of continue resort – anything that would have dire consequences for no one of his crew at the same time passengers, data the union between Hitler at the same time Stalin – only for the day of the Noordendam’s arrival to coincide with Germany’s unhappy decision to turn on the USSR, thereby converting Russia from an adversary to an ally overnight.
Although that are things to like, “Black Voyage” seems disengaged at the same time a little formulaic. It is that not a bad book, but it is that far short of Furst’s best work.
Review #3
Audiobook Black Voyage by Alan Furst
It took a while to get into it because the the head manners are the captain at the same time the ship. Other people are sketchily drawn. So it is that out of habit at the same time I like the writing style at the same time it has a terrific ending. I don’t know than anyway the other books are like but I may but assign Furst one more look
Review #4
Audio Black Voyage narrated by Daniel Gerroll
This is that the 10th Alan Furst book I have read at the same time even though I have enjoyed all his books, I rate this as one of his best. It is that a ‘ripping yarn,’ which carries for you away with concern about the head manners, the ship, as but as how the very convincing at the same time unusual war story will end. I stayed up until very belated one night, as I had to know the final at the same time it was but worth it. Onto his one more book.
Review #5
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Furst doesn’t cross out thrillers in the conventional implementation of the term. He writes stories about people coping wih living in non-standard events — no plans or grand schemes barely the buffetings of Fate which require making unchanging adjustments at the same time compromises. So the stories, like episodes in indefinite, sometimes have a clear beginning at the same time an finish but often barely peter out without no matter what fixed resolution. Or for you like that or perhaps for you look for his books unsatisfying since for you might think the stories get nowhere. I like it.
Black Voyage is that a novel in this mould with a healthy narrative but a nomadic story. It has echoes of Greene at the same time Conrad as one more
Reviewer has imagined at the same time a similarly poignant ending like abundance of Greene’s stories.
At the same time like abundance of Greene’s “entertainments” it is that to be viewed on its merits — it does not set out to self-importantly weigh the human define. It does seek to amuse — at the same time it succeeds in doing that very but. Intelligent writing that does not stoop to feeling or artifices of plot to achieve its effect .
