A Hero of France: A Novel

A Hero of France: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as â€œthe 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 Furstâ€™s 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; JoÃ«lle, 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 authorâ€™s trademark fine writing, breathtaking suspense, and intense scenes of seduction and passion, Alan Furstâ€™s 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

â€œFurst never stops astounding me.â€â€”Tom Hanks

â€œSuspenseful 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.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal

â€œThough set in a specific place and time, Furstâ€™s books are like Chopinâ€™s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.â€â€”Los Angeles Times

â€œ[Furst] remains at the top of his game.â€â€”The New York Times

â€œA grandmaster of the historical espionage genre.â€â€”The Boston Globe
Country USA
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ReleaseDate 2017-02-28
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Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0812986466_used
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2017-02-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812986464

A Hero of France: A Novel

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