Mission to Paris : A Novel (Paperback)

from dketelsen

I won this book via a GoodReads giveaway. This is the first book I've read by Alan Furst and it certainly won't be the last. His writing is smooth as silk and readily conveys the lurking menace of pre-WW2 France and Germany as the Nazis enlist a subversive PR campaign dedicated to undermining Fre...

from michigantrumpet

Highly recommended by a friend. Glad I had a chance to read this. Espionage thriller set in 1938 Paris. Movie idol Fredric Stahl is sent by Jack Warner to France to star in 'Apres le Guerre'. Who are these shadowy characters trying to enlist his willing (or unwilling) involvement in the battle ov...

from Ronrose1

Why, in late 1938, when tens of thousands of people are fleeing from Europe, is Frederic Stahl headed to Paris? For a film star like Stahl, working for Warner Brothers Studios, all it that matters is that Jack Warner wants him in France for a movie. What Jack Warner wants, Jack Warner gets. In th...

from barlow304

Typical Alan Furst, which means exquisite historical detail, slow building tension with violence and menace lurking in the background. Here the background is Paris in late 1938 as the city panics over the Munich crisis and then slowly resigns itslef to more tension. The Germans are busy pulling s...

from majkia

In the tense months leading up to World War II, to the disbelief of his friends, Fredric Stahl, an émigré living in California, accepts a contract to star in a movie to be filmed in Paris. Stahl, because of his nationality, is nearly immediately targeted by German elements attempting to disrupt F...