Looking for smugglers, drug dealers, murderers, traffickers in ruined Vienna or Berlin. Bonus points if there's a Soviet perspective, bonus points if it was written contemporaneously.
Well obviously *The Third Man* – Graham Greene. It’s a novella that paints a picture of a decrepit Vienna just after the war. Greene also wrote the screenplay of the film which features a rather seedy character played by Orson Welles.
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Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther Series
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pietr the latvian is between the wars europe, but it’s amazing and super seedy. the first of simenon’s inspector maigret series.
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Well obviously *The Third Man* – Graham Greene. It’s a novella that paints a picture of a decrepit Vienna just after the war. Greene also wrote the screenplay of the film which features a rather seedy character played by Orson Welles.
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther Series
pietr the latvian is between the wars europe, but it’s amazing and super seedy. the first of simenon’s inspector maigret series.
Alan Furst’s Night Soldier series.