Under Occupation by Alan Furst

 1942-- Paris, a dangerous city heavily occupied by the Gestapo was home to born and bred Paul Ricard, novelist of detective and spy fiction. On the street, a man was shot, running away from the Gestapo. Ricard tried to help him but the dying victim thrust a document into Ricard's shirt pocket --beginning his involvement with The Resistance...


Alan Furst is not only a master of espionage. He is one of today's best novelists. His stories are excellent. His presentations of countries, their people and their culture are so skillfully done that the reader feels she is traveling with him. I've read all of his thrillers and am so glad I found this one, his most recent, in big print.

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