num_pages: 234
description:  From the bestselling master espionage writer hailed by Vince Flynn as the best in the business comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris.Paris 1941. The City of Light occupied by the Nazis is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part the silvery moonlight defies authority and so does a leader of the French Resistance known as Mathieu.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 leads one such Resistance cell helping downed British airmen escape back to England.This suspenseful fast-paced thriller by the author whom Vince Flynn calls the most talented espionage novelist of our generation captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. Alan Furst 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; Jolle 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 authors trademark fine writing breathtaking suspense and intense scenes of seduction and passion Alan Fursts 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.
language: English
title: A Hero of France
publisher: Random House