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Hero of France
Hero of France | Alan Furst
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER 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. 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 Furst 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; Joelle, 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 author s trademark fine writing, breathtaking suspense, and intense scenes of seduction and passion, Alan Furst 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 Furst never stops astounding me. Tom Hanks Suspenseful 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. " The Wall Street Journal" Though set in a specific place and time, Furst s books are like Chopin s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell. " Los Angeles Times" "" [Furst] remains at the top of his game. " The New York Times" "" A grandmaster of the historical espionage genre. " The Boston Globe""
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emmaturi
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Pickpick

This is set in mostly Paris about the resistance against the Germans. It's short and enjoyable.

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emmaturi
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These are my current reads, enjoying both!

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MarkoPDX
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Mehso-so

I'm still working to get my 2020 reads in here. (I took a break from this app during the election when people started bringing the vitriol here, like every other platform.)

I read a couple of other books by Furst years ago, but this one didn't grab me like those earlier books.

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LindaGrace812
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Excellent book. I recommend it very highly!

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MaryAnn1
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Recently read Lilac Girls and following up with the theme and era. So far I'm hooked. The writing is engaging and reminds me of the style of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. After this one I'm going to need a palate cleansing fluff read.

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MaryAnn1

Recently read Lilac Girls and following up with the theme and era. So far I'm hooked. The writing is engaging and reminds me of the style of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. After this one I'm going to need a palate cleansing fluff read.

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Iambetsyw
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Loved it! Great story of the French Resistance during the German occupation of Paris.

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Gittelbooks
Hero of France | Alan Furst
Mehso-so

Have read most of Furst's novels. Earlier ones superior in my view. Now seems like he is more or less phoning it in. One reviewer said Furst captures French resistance like no other writer but I think Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is a better effort strengthened by its female perspective.

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