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Alan Furst, "A Hero of France"
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June 12, 2016
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37:42Now PlayingIn a string of thrillers so deeply researched and vividly written that that they could be almost be histories, Furst has chronicled Europe on the eve and in the thick of the Second World War. His nineteenth spy novel unfolds in Nazi-occupied Paris, and centers on Mathieu, leader of a Resistance cell, and the unlikely recruits he’s gathered to secretly repatriate downed British airmen. Furst deftly traces the covert activities of a seventeen-year-old girl, an aristocratic grande dame, a smuggler turned nightclub owner, and an outraged Jewish school teacher as they negotiate myriad collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and opportunists in a fight to save their country.
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