![]() ![]() ![]() So when officials in Germany’s political warfare department discover Stahl will be in their sphere of influence, they alert their Paris section to put him on “the list” to be used. But there’s a little known fact in his past that the Nazis can make much of-born in Vienna, Stahl worked as a gopher for the Austrian legation in Barcelona at the end of WWI, and Austria had been an ally of Germany. He likes Paris, and he likes keeping Jack Warner happy. loans Stahl out to make a picture in Paris. Our unlikely hero is Frederick Stahl, 40, a handsome American movie star, not an action figure but everyone’s favorite silver screen doctor or uncle or romantic leading man. From September 1938 to January 1939, the reader vividly lives through Paris’s last stormy breaths of freedom before Germany’s attack in 1940. Such is it with this historical spy novel. One wants the feeling to go on forever, the book to never end. Alan Furst’s writing reminds me of a swim in perfect water on a perfect day, fluid and exquisite. ![]()
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