Alan Furst
It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know heâ€™s comingâ€”a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade Franceâ€™s will to defend herself., Â , For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they donâ€™t know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris., Â , From Alan Furst, the bestselling author, often praised as the best spy novelist ever, comes a novel thatâ€™s truly hard to put down. ,Mission to Paris, includes beautifully drawn scenes of romance and intimacy, and the novel is alive with extraordinary characters: the German Baroness von Reschke, a famous hostess deeply involved in Nazi clandestine operations; the assassins Herbert and Lothar; the Russian film actress and spy Olga Orlova; the Hungarian diplomat and spy, Count Janos Polanyi; along with the French cast of Stahlâ€™s movie, German film producers, and the magnetic women in Stahlâ€™s life, the socialite Kiki de Saint-Ange and the Ã©migrÃ© Renate Steiner., Â , But always at the center of the novel is the city of Paris, the heart and soul of Europeâ€”its alleys and bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it was their last. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it.
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Mission to Paris