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A hero of France : a novel

Furst, Alan (author.).

Summary: "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. Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so does a leader of the French Resistance, known as Mathieu. 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 leads one such Resistance cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. This suspenseful, fast-paced thriller by the author whom Vince Flynn calls "the most talented espionage novelist of our generation" captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. Alan Furst 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; Joëlle, 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.

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  • ISBN: 0812986466
  • ISBN: 9780812986464
  • Physical Description: 234 pages : maps ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2016]
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction
France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction
Genre: War stories.
Thrillers (Fiction)
War fiction.

Available copies

  • 35 of 35 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 35 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library FICTION FURST (Text) 50686015015014 Storage Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library F FUR (Text) 37268002257194 AHMFL Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F FUR (Text) 33240005260289 Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library F Fur (Text) 00146547 ADULT Fiction Available -
Bedford County Library F FUR (Text) 35010001043494 Adult Fiction Available -
Bellwood-Antis Public Library F Fur (Text) 310BEL00078498 Adult Fiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library F FUR (Text) 30063001036930 Adult Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Fur (Text) 85131001507780 CACM Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION FURST (Text) 50688010680875 Adult Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION FURST (Text) 50688090006108 Browsing Available -


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