Red Gold

"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.

Author: Alan Furst
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 01/08/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.12w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9780375758591
ISBN10: 0375758593
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Literary Criticism | General

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.