Hi Ian, I didn't realize that these were a series and so I read number 8 first, Dark Voyage. It was the most fantastic book and so really exciting I couldn't put it down. Then I read number 6, Kingdom of shadows, which I couldn't get along with and finally number 3, The polish Officer, which I enjoyed, but it was pretty hard work. So I don't know what to think, but if you don't read any others I can highly recommend Dark voyage, even as a stand alone, brilliant book. Shell. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:10 AM To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [ebooktalk] MY CURRENT BOOK > There is a series of twelve books by Alan furst collectively entitled Night > Soldiers. They are novels about espionage and intelligence but told from the > Russian point of view. Last year I read the first of these and I'm currently > on the second. However, it is very convoluted and demands great > concentration and I'm finding it a bit of a slog. But , I don't really want > to give it up as the first book kept many of its secrets until the end and > was really very good. The second is called Dark Star and I wondered whether > anyone else had read it and could give me either encouragement or tell me to > jack it in. >