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A hero of France : a novel / Alan Furst.
"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers, defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An action-packed story of romance, intrigue, spies, bravery, and air battles"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812996494 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 234 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
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| Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France > Fiction. France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Spy fiction. War fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Furst | 31681010013522 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A tale set in World War II-era occupied Paris follows the experiences of French Resistance network members from diverse walks of life who engage in clandestine actions to regain the country's freedom. - Baker & Taylor
A tale set in World War II occupied Paris follows the experiences of French Resistance network members from diverse walks of life who engage in clandestine actions to regain the country's freedom. By the best-selling author of Red Gold. - Baker & Taylor
"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers, defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An action-packed story of romance, intrigue, spies, bravery, and air battles"-- - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as âthe best in the business,â comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYÂ THE WASHINGTON POST
1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu, a leader of the French Resistance, leads one such cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England.
Alan Furstâs suspenseful, fast-paced thriller captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. He brings Paris and occupied France to life, along with courageous citizens who outmaneuver collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and spies, risking everything to fulfill perilous clandestine missions. Aiding Mathieu as part of his covert network are Lisette, a seventeen-year-old student and courier; Max de Lyon, an arms dealer turned nightclub owner; Chantal, a woman of class and confidence; Daniel, a Jewish teacher fueled by revenge; Joëlle, who falls in love with Mathieu; and Annemarie, a willful aristocrat with deep roots in France, and a desire to act.
As the German military police heighten surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched by the Reich to destroy them all.
Shot through with the authorâs trademark fine writing, breathtaking suspense, and intense scenes of seduction and passion, Alan Furstâs A Hero of France is at once one of the finest novels written about the French Resistance and the most gripping novel yet by the living master of the spy thriller.
Praise for Alan Furst
âFurst never stops astounding me.ââTom Hanks
âSuspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst.ââThe Wall Street Journal
âThough set in a specific place and time, Furstâs books are like Chopinâs nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.ââLos Angeles Times
â[Furst] remains at the top of his game.ââThe New York Times
âA grandmaster of the historical espionage genre.ââThe Boston Globe
