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Red Gold
Red Gold: A Novel | Alan Furst
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"In the world of the espionage thriller, Alan Furst is in a class of his own."--William Boyd Paris. Autumn, 1941. In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the French resistance 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 and pervasive menace as predators from the dark edge of the war--arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins--emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a producer of gangster films, now living on a few francs a day and hunted by the Gestapo. As the German occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist party. Their NKVD contact, a former Comintern operative named Weiss--his seventeenth name--begins to orchestrate a series of attacks against the Germans. Reprisals are brutal. Fear spreads through the city. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully recreates the duplicitous world of the French resistance in the worst days of World War II. From the Hardcover edition.
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REPollock
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I wish Furst had written more books about this protagonist (film producer turned reluctant spy Jean-Claude Casson). I like how much is left unresolved in this and THE WORLD AT NIGHT both, in that so much about the world then involved loose ends and the unknown; but I also want to know if he makes it through the war alive. This book was nail-biting.

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REPollock
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Pretty much.

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REPollock
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Killed a massive spider with this hardcover this morning bc it was the closest thing at hand. My eyesight is bad enough that it could have been a recluse but I wouldn‘t swear to it in court. What a way to start the day.

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REPollock
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The chapter epigraphs are 💔

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REPollock
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I can‘t stop with the Furst novels apparently. 📚💖

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ApocalypseArchives
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I am deeply in love with this. #revolutionaries #history #death #life #victorious

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Readerann
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Mehso-so

I'd like to give this a more enthusiastic rating because Furst is a talented writer who is an expert in everything World War II. This one didn't quite measure up to his others for me - maybe because the flow was a bit too choppy.