Red Gold
A Novel
Erschienen am 18. Dezember 2007
288 Seiten
978-0-307-43291-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
"Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years."-Time
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. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.
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. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Produkt-Hinweis
Windows
Dateigröße
0,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-307-43291-9 (9780307432919)
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Person
Often compared to Graham Greene and Eric Ambler, Alan Furst is a master of the spy thriller and one of the great war novelists of our time. He is the author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, and The World at Night. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Inhalt
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PLACE CLICHY
- STALIN'S ORDER
- AUTUMN RAINS
- THE LAWYER
- MAS MODÈLE 38
- SERVICE B
- LUNA PARK
- HOTEL DU COMMERCE
- MONSIEUR MARIN
- BY ALAN FURST
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
