Spies of the Balkans (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Costa "Constantine" Zannis: A senior police official in Salonika
• Gabi Saltiel: Costa Zannis' assistant
• Cvetkovic: Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
• Marko Pavlic: Costa Zannis' Yugoslav counterpart
• Adolf Hitler: Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich)
• Madam Karras: Mayor of Salonika's girlfriend
• Ilka: Owner of the Ilka's Bar in Budapest
• Emilia "Emmi" Krebs: Jewish wife of powerful Colonel Hugo Krebs
• Elias: The poet
• Anastas: Costa Zannis' uncle
• Sibylla: Costa Zannis' office clerk
• Balthazar: Owner of the same name taverna in Vardar Square
• Benito Mussolini: Fascist leader of Italy during WW II
• Gustav Husar: Was a famous Hungarian pro wrestler then became a gang leader
• Frau Gruen: Wife of Herr Gruen
• Akos: Teenager thug in Gustav Husar's gang
• Francis Escovil: English travel writer
• Vlatko: Serbian detective in the Homicide Office in Belgrade
• Pappou: Local gang leader in Trikkala
• Behar: Albanian thief in Trikkala
• Ivan Lazareff: Costa Zannis' good friend, and chief of detectives in Sofia
• Melissa: Costa Zannis' dog
• Rosenblum: Two Jewish sisters who are trying to escape from Berlin
• Laurette: Costa Zannis' French girlfriend in Paris
• Vangelis: Head of the Selonika police
• Roxanne Brown: Zannis' current English girlfriend
• Spiraki: Formerly an Athenian lawyer who ran the local office of the Geniki Asphalia, the State Security Bureau
• Albert Hauser: Hauptsturmführer of Gestapo
• Matzig: Albert Hauser's partner
• Tasia Loukas: Former girlfriend of Costa Zannis
• Nicholas Vasilou: One of the richest men in Salonika
• Demetria Vasilou: "The goddess", Nicholas Vasilou's wife
• Ahmet Celebi: The Turkish consul
• Madam Urglu: Nominally a deputy to the commercial attache, in fact the Turkish legation's intelligence officer
• Colonel Simonides: The Royal Hellenic Army General Staff
• Ioannis Metaxas: General, the prime minister of Greece
• Sami Pal: Costa Zannis' Hungarian contact in Salonika
• Wilkins: British Secret Intelligence Service officer
• Jones: British Secret Intelligence Service officer
• Harry Byer: British physicist who studied sound waves and radio beams
• Moises: Owner of the Selonika's best gunshop
• Didi: The aristocrat, Costa Zannis' contact in Paris
• Herr Gruen: Emillia Krebs' Jewish neighbor who is trying to flee to Salonika

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Salonika
• Greece
• Berlin
• Germany
• Paris
• Budapest
• Bulgaria
• Belgrade
• Athens
• Trikkala
• Balkans
• Istanbul
• Europe
• Yugoslavia
• Turkey
• Vienna
• Zagreb
• Santaroza Lane
• Via Egnatia
• Sofia
• France
• Alexandria
• Albania
• Hungary
• Roumania
• Serbia
• London
• Macedonia
• Britain
• Poland
• Switzerland
• Dahlem
• Basel
• Smyrna
• America
• Leverkusen
• Edirne
• Dusseldorf
• Italy

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Spies of Warsaw, and followed by Mission to Paris.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Alan Furst (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• eDunnit Award (Finalist, 2010: The Best Crime Fiction ebook)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3556.U76S73 2010
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Alan Furst homepage: official author's website discussing this book.