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About Under Occupation: A Novel
Product Description From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler. Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the diagram into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts and increasingly dangerous espionage assignments, he travels to Germany and along the escape routes of underground resistance safe houses to spy on Nazi maneuvers. When he meets the mysterious and beautiful Leila, a professional spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London. Amazon.com Review Alan Furst once told Newsweek "My job is to take the reader for a ride, to somewhere he or she has never been and let them walk around in there." Job well done in his latest historical spy novel, Under Occupation. Paul Ricard, a moderately successful spy novelist, witnesses a man being chased through the streets of Paris by the Gestapo before being felled by gunfire. Collapsing by Paul’s feet, the dying man surreptitiously passes along something which Paul later realizes is the schematic of a weapon, a weapon that ought to be in Allied hands. Unable to find someone to get it to the Allies, Paul joins the Resistance himself, moving from writing about men of action to becoming one himself. Under Occupation showcases much of what has made Furst a bestselling author, most notably a plot based on a little-known aspect of history. In this case, it’s the Polish prisoners who were conscripted to work on German weaponry only to smuggle information about those weapons to the French Resistance, who in turn smuggled it to British Intelligence. Elsewhere, Furst’s typically atmospheric, and meticulously detailed, accounts of the mundanities of day-to-day life in Occupied Paris give way to scenes of terror and intrigue just as an Everyman goes from observer on the sidelines to death-defying participant in the war. If Paris is much more changed than our hero, it’s a small quibble in an otherwise entertaining spy saga. —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review Review Praise for Alan Furst “One of the best contemporary writers.” —David McCullough “Furst never stops astounding me.” —Tom Hanks “Though set in a specific place and time, Furst’s books are like Chopin’s nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.” —Los Angeles Times “Furst is the best in the business.” —Vince Flynn “Suspenseful and sophisticated . . . No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst.” —The Wall Street Journal About the Author Alan Furst, widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel, is the author of A Hero of France, Midnight in Europe, Mission to Paris, and many other bestsellers. Born in New York, he lived for many years in Paris, and now lives on Long Island. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Alone in the afternoon after school, then as a grown man, Ricard walked. Sometimes his eyes discovered a face he wanted to study, sometimes a shop window, displaying things which he would never own. But he hardly cared; what he wanted to do was walk. Perhaps it helped that he was walking in Paris, one of the great places in the world to walk, but Ricard as a boy and then as a man didn’t think about that, the monuments—cathedrals, fountains, sculptures of generals on horseback—all this was simply background scenery to Ricar
