A review by newishpuritan
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst

4.0

This is arguably the point at which first-tier Furst (I'd rate the previous seven novels in this series at four or five stars) begins to shade over into something lesser. Plenty to enjoy here, including a new (for this series) setting on a Dutch merchant-marine ship, some very well-handled set pieces and fantasticly choreographed and convincing action scenes, but – I don't know – it just seems to lean a little heavier on genre shorthand and cliche than earlier novels in the sequence. And I remember finding the ending very disappointing on first read when it came out, though it bothers me less on this third or fourth read. The fact I can still come back to it argues in its favour of course. Hence the (perhaps generous) four stars.