PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780297863960
- Categories BX, BXOS, Crime, extraordinary, F CTM, Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, WBD
- Author(s) Alan Furst
- Publisher Orion Publishing
- Pages 320
- Format Trade Paperback
- Dimensions 15.4cm x 2.2cm x 23.3cm
- Weight 0.43 kg
product description
Paris, 1938. A shadow edges over Europe. Democratic forces are locked in struggle, while in Spain the war has already begun. Cristian Ferrar, a handsome Spanish lawyer in Paris, is a well-connected man. Ferrar is approached to help a clandestine agency supply weapons to beleaguered Republican forces and agrees, putting his life on the line. Joining Ferrar in his mission is an unlikely group of allies: idealists and gangsters, arms traders and aristocrats, including Max de Lyon, a man hunted by the Gestapo, and the Marquesa Maria Cristina, a refined beauty with a taste for danger. From libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in Gdansk, Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into a nightmare - and the heroes and heroines who fought back.