Novelist Alan Furst writes specific stories about a specific time. His tales of intrigue, which have been compared with the work of Graham Green and John le Carre, are all set in the late 1930's and early 1940's, and involve eastern Europeans. While the stories are fiction, they are carefully researched. Furst is in the Twin Cities to read from his two most recent novels, "Kingdom of Shadows" and "The Polish Officer." He told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that the "The Polish Officer" was inspired by a photograph from 1944 which he admits he did not initially understand.