Khristo falls in love with a woman named Aleksandra, and as the Soviets begin hunting down the members of the Bulgarian scheme, Aleksandra is kidnapped from Khristo's apartment. The plan is executed well until Khristo stops being involved in it, then it falls apart quickly. His headwaiter is a savvy Parisian man who has also emigrated from Bulgaria, and he taps Khristo to become involved in a scheme to steal gold from the Soviets in Paris. Khristo cannot hide the fact that he is a man set apart from other men because of his training and experience in killing. He becomes a waiter at an elegant and popular dining club in Paris. He believes he is finally free from the Soviet grip. Andres and Faye end up in another part of France. After a long and difficult journey, Khristo ends up in France. Khristo and Andres are betrayed by the Soviets, but alerted in time by Kulic so they can escape. During this time in Madrid, Khristo meets Andres's American girlfriend, Faye Berns, and is impressed with her. Khristo works with Goldman and Andres on several missions within Madrid. Khristo is directed to get more information out of Andres, or he will face a similar fate.
Sascha is tortured and then sent to Siberia for a thirty-year sentence. Sascha is recalled to Moscow because his supervisors are not pleased with his production. Sascha and Khristo are assigned to work with a man named Andres in Spain, who is feeding information to the Soviets regarding several anarchist groups in Madrid. When Khristo is sent into the field, his partner is Sascha. Khristo realizes through a series of events at the school that he is irrevocably trapped as a Soviet agent, and that he cannot go home again, cannot trust anyone, and cannot ever escape. The men become cold and jaded through their experiences, but feel a bond towards each other. These men are trained in espionage and counterintelligence and are manipulated by their teachers in cruel and horrifying ways. Khristo's comrades are Kulic, Voluta, and Goldman. The men form a bond, naming themselves BF 825, which refers to a training exercise where their unit, 8, should have been named the winner. Soon afterwards, Khristo decides to leave the village where he was born and travels to Moscow with Antipin, a Soviet espionage agent and recruiter.Īt the school, Khristo is placed in a unit with several other agents. Khristo is nineteen years old and living in Vidin Bulgaria when his brother is kicked to death by a local fascist militia. The story centers on the main character, Khristo Stoianev.
Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst, is the fictional story of a group of Soviet trained spies who attend espionage training in Moscow, form a secret bond signified by BF 825, then follows their lives from pre-World War II to the months immediately after the war's end.
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