Alan Furst: Master of Historical Spy Novels

One of my aims with this blog, is to provide inspiration for other writers. The best place that comes from, is through hearing the stories of other successful writers. I also like to cover as many fiction genres as I can, so here is one for the crime, thriller and mystery loving writers.

If you’ve never come across his work, Alan Furst is the author of Dark Voyage, Blood of Victory, Kingdom of Shadows, Red Gold, Night Soldiers, Dark Star, Mission to Paris and more. He started as a copy writer for advertising agencies, then later wrote for magazines and had newspaper columns, but has always been a novelist. His web site is located at: http://www.alanfurst.net/

The first three are short videos.

Writing Spy Novels


Developing Atmosphere


First Drafts:

Controversial food for thought… each writer has their own methods.


This is a much longer video of Alan speaking at Authors@Google on his book, The Spies of Warsaw.