Mission to Paris
By: Alan Furst
Series: Night soldiers -- 12; Night soldiers -- 12.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780297863922; 9780297863939; 9780297863946; 9781400069484
Subjects: Fiction; History; Americans; World War, 1939-1945; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave.
Table of contents: title: Frederic Stahl, a Viennese Hollywood movie star, decides to shoot a film in Paris shortly after war is declared in 1939. The Parisians know this is their last spring, and a time to be passionate. Soon after his arrival, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and of course, spies of every sort. For as a celebrity from neutral America; title: who can travel across the continent freely; title: Stahl could be very useful indeed ...