Mission to Paris is a literary fiction book in the Night Soldiers series by author Alan Furst.
From the New York Times bestselling author. A gripping novel about espionage and deception in pre-war Paris in 1938.

At the center of the plot is Hollywood star Frederic Stahl. September 1938. On the eve of the Munich Appeasement, Stahl went to Paris, on loan from Warner Brothers to film a French film. He was quickly drawn into the changing political currents of pre-war Paris – the French fascists, the Nazis, and his Hollywood journalists all had fates tied to him. Members of the secretive world of Parisian espionage had a deeper interest in Stahl, sensing potential assets in a handsome, internationally renowned actor.

Stretching from the high society of glittering Paris to remote filming locations in Damascus and Budapest, Alan Furst’s new novel asserts his status as a writer whose stories unfold. “like a vivid dream”.

Alan Furst wrote deeply suspenseful novels about espionage in Europe in the years before and during World War II. Mission to Paris, the latest of these books, is good enough to satisfy the most die-hard fans of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene. It’s hard to accept the fact that Furst grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City and now lives nearby in Sag Harbor. He lived in Europe (actually Paris) for only a limited time, which seems too short a time to convincingly explain the European sensitivities to his work. .

An Austrian-born Hollywood movie star named Fredric Stahl is the protagonist of Mission to Paris. The title is ironic, since Stahl went to Paris on orders from Jack Warner to play the lead role for Paramount Pictures on loan in a war movie. As production on the film slowly began, Stahl became increasingly attracted to the immigrant German seamstress who created the film’s costumes, and soon found herself starring in a private love story. mine. Meanwhile, the staunch anti-fascist Stahl finds himself the target of Nazi agents with the intention of trapping him in their propaganda machine. As the action unfolds, the two storylines intersect, endangering both Stahl and his lover.

When the story begins, it is late 1938, when Europe is on the verge of war. Chamberlain’s surrender in Munich and the Kristallnacht tragedy take place in the background, sometimes the subject of conversation and concern. Vigorous debate is ongoing in France over proposals from the Left to rearm the country in the face of inevitable German aggression, with sometimes fierce opposition from the Right and its underground forces. Nazi Germany. The mission to Paris was coming to a successful conclusion just before the German invasion of France in June 1939.

Mission to Paris is the twelfth story in Furst’s “Night Soldiers” series, appearing about every two years on average since 1988.

• Mission to Paris

• By: Alan Furst
• Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

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