Midnight in EuropeBy: Alan Furst Paris, 1938. Democratic forces are locked in struggle as the shadow of war edges over Europe. Cristin Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces. He agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar in his mission is an unlikely group of allies: idealists and gangsters, arms dealers, aristocrats and spies. From libertine nightclubs in Paris to