Widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel, New York Times best-selling author Alan Furst takes listeners back to the early days of World War II for a dramatic novel of intrigue and suspense. Bulgaria, 1934. The local fascists have just murdered the brother of Khristo Stoianev. Now Khristo is recruited into the NKVD-the Soviet secret police-for special service in the Spanish civil war. "A spy novel. a war story, an adventure, a survivor's tale-Night Soldiers is all this and more."-Seattle Times