Finished Night Soldiers - my very first Bulgarian spy novel

Just finished this. Picked it up at our church book sale for 25 cents - one of those great buys you can only get through a book. It's the story of a Bulgarian who becomes a spy before and during WW2. This is Furst's playfield - apparently all of his books (eight or so now) deal with such characters during that time. Furst is obviously a thorough historian. I can imagine him combing over diaries and dusty archives, writing down transcriptions of coerced USSR confessions to serve as inspiration for his characters. Beautiful descriptions of Paris before the war and the Slavic states during the end of the fighting. The best part is when it turns out the secret code was the nursery rhyme he told his daughter. Kinda obvious when you think about it.

I also picked up his The Polish Officer, which I'll start as soon as I satiate my sci-fi craving and finish The Golden Compass.