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Laddar... A Hero of France: A Novel (urspr publ 2016; utgåvan 2017)av Alan Furst (Författare)
VerksinformationA Hero of France av Alan Furst (2016)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A fine historical, spy drama - well written w/excellent characters. ( ) Having never read anything by [a:Alan Furst|49941|Alan Furst|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1226085973p2/49941.jpg] before, [b:A Hero of France|27876488|A Hero of France|Alan Furst|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1460910623s/27876488.jpg|47869159] is my introduction to his writing. I really wanted to love this book and its characters, but at the end found it somewhat lacking. It is very well written, with interesting characters, but the book just didn't grab me like it should have given its story line. While the main character, Mathieu, is well developed, the remaining characters seemed more like caricatures than characters. Also, while throughout the entire book, danger lurked on every corner, the suspense never really seemed to fully build. And while there was plenty of action, it never really reached the level of excitement I had hoped for. This is still a very enjoyable book, just (at least to me) somewhat disappointing in that it could have been better. (This ARC was provided to me by the publisher via a goodreads giveaway.) The focus this time is the French resistance fighters. They're organized, hard to find and the RAF depends on them to get their down pilots back to safety and back into the fight. England can build planes but the dire resource is trained pilots. There are cells that work as units and there are specialists who know how to get across the unprotected borders especially in low population areas. Then there's the occasional plane landing where they hope only their friends know they're coming. And even more unusual the submarine bringing in saboteurs with their special cargos. They need to figure out who is really a friend and who is trying to get to know them just to turn them in. Cells need to disband once they get too successful. They draw too much attention. And everyone is waiting for the Americans to turn the tide. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as "the best in the business," comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so does a leader of the French Resistance, known as Mathieu. In Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined to take down the occupying forces of Adolf Hitler. Mathieu leads one such Resistance cell, helping downed British airmen escape back to England. This suspenseful, fast-paced thriller by the author whom Vince Flynn calls "the most talented espionage novelist of our generation" captures this dangerous time as no one ever has before. Alan Furst brings Paris and occupied France to life, along with courageous citizens who outmaneuver collaborators, informers, blackmailers, and spies, risking everything to fulfill perilous clandestine missions. Aiding Mathieu as part of his covert network are Lisette, a seventeen-year-old student and courier; Max de Lyon, an arms dealer turned nightclub owner; Chantal, a woman of class and confidence; Daniel, a Jewish teacher fueled by revenge; Joëlle, who falls in love with Mathieu; and Annemarie, a willful aristocrat with deep roots in France, and a desire to act. As the German military police heighten surveillance, Mathieu and his team face a new threat, dispatched by the Reich to destroy them all. Shot through with the author's trademark fine writing, breathtaking suspense, and intense scenes of seduction and passion, Alan Furst's A Hero of France is at once one of the finest novels written about the French Resistance and the most gripping novel yet by the living master of the spy thriller. Praise for Alan Furst "Furst never stops astounding me."--Tom Hanks "Suspenseful and sophisticated. No espionage author, it seems, is better at summoning the shifting moods and emotional atmosphere of Europe before the start of World War II than Alan Furst."--The Wall Street Journal "Though set in a specific place and time, Furst's books are like Chopin's nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell."--Los Angeles Times "[Furst] remains at the top of his game."--The New York Times "A grandmaster of the historical espionage genre."--The Boston Globe"--
"Alan Furst goes to war: Occupied Paris for the first time since Red Gold (1999 pub), Furst has set this novel during the war itself, instead of on the eve of the war. Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers, defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An action-packed story of romance, intrigue, spies, bravery, and air battles"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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