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Mission to Paris

Mission to Paris( )
Author: Furst, Alan
ISBN:978-1-4000-6948-4
Publication Date:Jun 2012
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Random House
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.00
Book Description:

It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know he's coming--a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade France's will to defend herself.   For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of...
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Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.37 x 9.55 x 1.01 Inches
Book Weight:1.062 Pounds
Author Biography
Furst, Alan (Author)
Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) achieved limited success. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel a Hero of France.

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