1988 includes a dozen works. He is especially noted for his successful evocations of Eastern European peoples and places during the period from 1933 to 1944. While all his historical espionage novels are loosely connected (protagonists in one book might appear as minor characters in another), only The World at Night and Red Gold share a common plot. Writing in The New York Times, the novelist Justin Cartwright says that Furst, who lives in Sag Harbor, Long Island, "has adopted a European sensibility." Awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship in 1969, Furst moved to Sommières, France, outside of Montpellier, and taught at the University of Montpellier. He later lived for many years in Paris, a city that he calls "the heart of civilisation" which figures significantly in all his novels. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work. In 2012, he appeared in a documentary about the life and work of author W. Somerset Maugham, Revealing Mr. Maugham. Works Stand-alone novel Shadow Trade (1983) Roger Levin Your Day in the Barrel (1976) The Paris Drop (1980) The Caribbean Account (1981) Night Soldiers novels Night Soldiers (1988) Dark Star (1991) The Polish Officer (1995) The World at Night (1996) Red Gold (1999) Kingdom of Shadows (2000) Blood of Victory (2003) Dark Voyage (2004) The Foreign Correspondent (2006) The Spies of Warsaw (2008) Spies of the Balkans (2010) Mission to Paris (2012) Midnight in Europe (2014) A Hero of France (2016) Under Occupation (2019) Crossovers Secondary characters who appear in more than one Furst novel include: Ilya Goldman, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, Kingdom of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent) Ivan Ivanovich Agayants, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star) Colonel Vassily Antipin (Night Soldiers, Red Gold) General Bloch, GRU (Night Soldiers, Dark Star) Renate Braun, Comintern foreign specialist (Night Soldiers, Dark Star) Maltsaev, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star) Voyschinkowsky, The Lion of the Bourse (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, Kingdom of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent) Colonel Anton Vyborg, Polish military intelligence (The Polish Officer, Dark Star, The Spies of Warsaw) Count Janos Polanyi (Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Star, The Foreign Correspondent, Mission To Paris, Midnight in Europe) S. Kolb, British agent (Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, Spies of the Balkans, briefly in Midnight in Europe, A Hero of France)