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Blood of Victory
by Alan Furst
Book 7 in the Night Soldiers series.
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Istanbul, autumn 1940. I. A. Serebin, a Russian émigré writer, is recruited by British intelligence for a mission directed at Germany’s access to Romanian petroleum. Because the Axis war economy depends heavily on oil moving from the Ploiești fields toward Central Europe, transport routes, river barges and commercial intermediaries become targets of strategic importance.
Serebin travels through Bucharest, Belgrade and the Black Sea world as neutrality gives way to intimidation and occupation. Working with a dispersed network of agents and sympathisers, he attempts to disrupt supply without the resources of a conventional military operation. The novel connects personal exile and Balkan political instability to the industrial foundations of modern warfare.
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