Horizon, a novel vs Spies of the Balkans: Which Should You Read?

Horizon, a novel Helen MacInnes · 1946 ★★★★☆ 4.0 192 pages · ≈ 3 h 33 m · Challenging

A wartime story of conflicting emotions and loyalties. Some Tyrolean citizens, north and south, sick of being under Italian rule, look to the Nazi invasion as a liberation, their promises of freedom as something worth…

Spies of the Balkans Alan Furst · 2010 ★★★★☆ 3.9 275 pages · ≈ 5 h 06 m · Challenging

Greece, 1940. Not sunny vacation Greece: northern Greece, Macedonian Greece, Balkan Greece—the city of Salonika. In that ancient port, with its wharves and warehouses, dark lanes and Turkish mansions, brothels and…