Crossover Characters
Secondary characters who appear in more than one Furst novel include:
- Ilya Goldman, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, Kingdom of Shadows, The Foreign Correspondent)
- Colonel Vassily Antipin (Night Soldiers, Red Gold)
- General Bloch, GRU (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
- Renate Braun, Comintern foreign specialist (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
- Maltsaev, NKVD (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
- Voyschinkowsky, The Lion of the Bourse (Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, Kingdom of Shadows)
- Colonel Anton Vyborg, Polish military intelligence (The Polish Officer, Dark Star, The Spies of Warsaw)
- Count Janos Polanyi (Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Star, The Foreign Correspondent, Mission To Paris)
- S. Kolb, British agent (Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent, Spies of the Balkans)
- Dr. Lapp, Abwehr (Kingdom of Shadows, The Spies of Warsaw; mentioned in Blood of Victory)
- Boris Balki, Russian emigre bartender in Paris (Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory)
- Mark Shublin, Polish painter (Kingdom of Shadows, The Spies of Warsaw)
- Jean Casson, protagonist of The World At Night and Red Gold, is mentioned in Mission To Paris (but does not appear)
- British intelligence operatives in Europe (mainly Paris), such as
- Lady Angela Hope (appears in Night Soldiers and Dark Star; mentioned in Red Gold, The Foreign Correspondent, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory)
- Roddy Fitzware (Night Soldiers, Dark Star)
- Mr. Brown (Night Soldiers, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, The Foreign Correspondent)
- Brasserie Heininger, Paris restaurant (every book; inspired by the real-life Bistro Bofinger)
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