Mission to Paris - Hardcover

Furst, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297863924 ISBN 13: 9780297863922

Publisher: W&N, 2012

Synopsis

Frederic Stahl, a Hollywood film star, travels from Beverly Hills to the boulevards of Paris. It is a dangerous, difficult, seductive time: Europe is about to explode, and the Parisians are living every night as though it were their last.

As filming progresses, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, embassy officials, and spies of every sort. His engagements take him from the bistros of Paris to the back alleys of Morocco; from a Hungarian castle to Kristallnacht, and the chilling heart of the Third Reich. But can he survive as German operatives track him across Paris?

Gripping, haunting, and deeply passionate, Mission to Paris is the ultimate portrait of a people at war and Alan Furst's most panoramic, lovingly described, and finest book to date.

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Review:

Mission to Paris is as intricate and enjoyable as anything Furst has written... Furst's high level of surface preiod detail is expertly deployed to make us feel as if we're stranded in the past without a guide. Nothing is needlessly explained; it just happens quickly and thrillingly (John O'Connell THE GUARDIAN)

Alan Furst's subject is the death of old Europe. His books are spy novels told in a style that is at once meticulously detailed - the complete menu, the vintage of the champagne, the colour of the tablecloths - and impressionistic... brilliantly captures the tense and frightening atmosphere during the last days of free Paris (Jessica Mann LITERARY REVIEW)

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carré fan, this is definitely a novel for you. (James Patterson)

a solid, serious book - thrilling, evocative and full of subtle nuance (VOYAGER magazine)

Those who haven't yet discovered the addictive pleasures of [Furst's] elegant and evocative prose, beautifully drawn characters and skillful plots have a real treat in store. Unreservedly recommended (IRISH INDEPENDENT)

a smooth elegantly written spy story (THE SUNDAY HERALD (Glasgow))

a romantic, elegantly written espionage thriller notable for its exciting, straightforward plot and characters who are definitely on either the right or the wrong side (MORNING STAR)

Mission to Paris, the 12th novel in the series, contains some of Furst's best writing to date...Furst is a romantic moralist working in a version of the realist tradition...line-for-line he beats his rivals hands down (THE INDEPENDENT)

Alan Furst cannot disappoint. With an iron grasp on his historical setting (Europe just before WWII) and his ability to create characters or atmospheres economically and without pretension, he once again gives a master class in spare thriller writing which those of us with lesser talents can only gawp at, slack-jawed. Mission to Paris is almost like watching Casablanca. Hardly a line seems out of place, there is romance, heroism, humanity and a noble cause. (Mike Ripley 'Getting Away With Murder' SHOTS)

a crackerjack tale of spies and a subtle meditation on the mood of Europe in the shadow of Hitler's rise. Furst gives you both panoramic view and detail shots, a unique gift for a writer of historical fiction...with the pacing and suspense you'd expect from one of the very best. To do this, and to suffuse his novel with history and ambiance that feel so authentic you are almost breathing it, is a tremendous feat (THE WASHINGTON POST (USA))

Book Description:

The author of TV Book Club's SPIES OF THE BALKANS returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0297863924
• ISBN 13: 9780297863922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272