Paris, 1938. As the shadow of war darkens Europe, democratic forces on the Continent struggle against fascism and communism, while in Spain the war has already begun, in Alan Furst's 13th Night Soldiers thriller. Cristián Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish émigré, is a lawyer in the Paris office of an international law firm. He is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic's beleaguered army. From shady Paris nightclubs to white-shoe New York law firms, from brothels in Istanbul to the dockyards of Poland, Ferrar and his allies risk their lives attempting to outmaneuver the agents of Hitler and Franco.