Let's make this birthday one to remember.

84 years old (Born on February 20, 1941)

Happy Birthday, Alan Furst! You've clandestinely infiltrated bookstores worldwide with your gripping espionage tales and unforgettable agents. Your Night Soldiers series keeps readers awake till dawn—proving, indeed, that sleep is overrated when international intrigue awaits.

Each novel transports us straight to shadowy alleyways of World War II Europe, adeptly crafted with meticulous historical detail and suspenseful pacing. Readers everywhere thank you for beautifully undercover thrillers we've grown to cherish. May today's celebration involve good friends and no double agents—and may the coming years bring even more successful missions in literature's covert corridors. Keep plotting adventures: we're all happily compromised!