Bulgaria 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother Khristo Stoianev is recruited into the NKVD the Soviet secret intelligence service & sent to Spain to serve in its civil war. Warned that he is about to become a victim of Stalins purges Khristo flees to Paris. Night Soldiers masterfully re-creates the European world of 1934-45: the struggle between Nazi Germany & Soviet Russia for Eastern Europe the last desperate gaiety of the beau monde in 1937 Paris & guerrilla operations with the French underground in 1944. Night Soldiers is a scrupulously researched panoramic novel a work on a grand scale.