{"id":219,"date":"2007-08-09T16:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-08-09T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T14:52:33","slug":"red-gold-by-alan-furst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/red-gold-by-alan-furst\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Gold &#8211; by Alan Furst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Furst is routinely hailed as possibly the greatest living writer of traditional espionage fiction.  He sets his books in exotic times and places &#8212; this one, for example, recounts stories of the French resistance and is mostly set in Paris in the early 1940s.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/23921\/biblio\/9780375758591\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/cgi-bin\/imageDB.cgi?isbn=9780375758591\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I read about Furst and snapped up a couple of his books.  This is the second one I read and, like the first, I have to admit to being a bit disappointed.<br \/>\nThere is atmosphere galore &#8212; the characters seem to run from one hotel to restaurant to cafe, and then to another.<br \/>\nBut there is little characterization, and not much of a plot.<br \/>\nI think so much can be done with this era and authors like Graham Greene and John Le Carre showed what could be done with the espionage novel.<br \/>\nPerhaps Furst has done better work &#8212; but Red Gold just doesn&#8217;t cut it for me.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Still, if you want to see for yourself, you can order this book from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/23921\/biblio\/9780375758591\">unionized, online bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Furst is routinely hailed as possibly the greatest living writer of traditional espionage fiction. He sets his books in exotic times and places &#8212; this one, for example, recounts stories of the French resistance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}