Kanon's new novel is The Accomplice.
At The Week magazine he recommended six books, including:
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst (1988).Read about another entry on the list.
Readers familiar only with Furst's popular between-the-wars Paris novels will be pleasantly surprised by this lesser-known but even richer work, set in the Balkans on the brink of war and featuring a young Bulgarian who's recruited by Moscow after he witnesses his brother's murder by local fascists. Full of the author's signature smoky atmosphere and conflicted loyalties, it's early but already vintage Furst.
Night Soldiers is among Dwyer Murphy's ten top spy thrillers featuring Russia versus the West.
--Marshal Zeringue