Red Gold -- Alan Furst

<b>"Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years."--<i>Time</i></b> <p/>Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines--from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war--arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins--emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun.<i> Red Gold</i> masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Alan Furst<br><b>Publisher:</b> Random House Group<br><b>Published:</b> 01/08/2002<br><b>Pages:</b> 288<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.52lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.16h x 5.12w x 0.64d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375758591<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Alan Furst</b>, widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel, is the author of<i> A Hero of France, Midnight in Europe, Mission to Paris, </i>and many othe