Mission to Paris -- Alan Furst

<b>"A master spy novelist."--<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br> <b> </b><br> <b>"Page after page is dazzling."--James Patterson</b><br> <b> </b><br> <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b> <p/>Late summer, 1938. Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. The Nazis know he's coming--a secret bureau within the Reich has been waging political warfare against France, and for their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence. What they don't know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy. <i>Mission to Paris </i>is filled with heart-stopping tension, beautifully drawn scenes of romance, and extraordinarily alive characters: foreign assassins; a glamorous Russian actress-turned-spy; and the women in Stahl's life. At the center of the novel is the city of Paris--its bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it were their last. Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it. <p/> <b>Praise for <i>Mission to Paris</i></b> <p/> "The most talented espionage novelist of our generation."--Vince Flynn <p/>"Vividly re-creates the excitement and growing gloom of the City of Light in 1938-39 . . . It doesn't get more action-packed and grippingly atmospheric than this."<i>--The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"One of Furst's] best . . . This is th