Midnight In Europe, Furst - B -

                                                Cristian Ferrrar is a partner in the Paris office of Coudert Brothers in 1937.  As a twelve-year-old, he left Catalonia with his parents and grandmother during civil unrest in 1909.  He remains a Spanish citizen and responds positively to a request from the Spanish Embassy for help during the Civil War. He is asked to purchase arms in Czechoslovakia from Skoda and ship them to Spain.  And so off goes a respectable lawyer into the  role of arms smuggler on a trip to Danzig and a successful  shipment of anti-tank weapons to Spain.      That success is followed by sneaking arms out of Odessa and shipping them too to Spain. 'Midnight In Europe' is the 12th novel in the series, occasionally called the Night Soldier novels, all set in Europe in the thirties.  The novels are extraordinary in their ability to convey  fear and anxiety as the Fascist storm gathers.  The novels have no continuing lead  character nor are they sequential.  They range  from Hungary to Greece to Poland to Yugoslavia to England to Switzerland and often stop in Paris. Furst is so good that you can see the fog and hear the train whistles. This book is probably not as good as some of the others, but was nonetheless, a pleasant respite.