Bryant and May and the Invisible Code

English

ISBN: 1400069483

EAN: 9781400069484

Category: Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage/Fiction / Historical/Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense/

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 06/12/2012

Synopsis: It is the late summer of 1938, Europe is about to explode, the Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie for Paramount France. The Nazis know hes coming-a secret bureau within the Reich Foreign Ministry has for years been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale and degrade Frances will to defend herself. For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they dont know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris. From Alan Furst, the bestselling author, often praised as the best spy novelist ever, comes a novel thats truly hard to put down. Mission to Parisincludes beautifully drawn scenes of romance and intimacy, and the novel is alive with extraordinary characters: the German Baroness von Reschke, a famous hostess deeply involved in Nazi clandestine operations; the assassins Herbert and Lothar; the Russian film actress and spy Olga Orlova; the Hungarian diplomat and spy, Count Janos Polanyi; along with the French cast of Stahls movie, German film producers, and the magnetic women in Stahls life, the socialite Kiki de Saint-Ange and the ?migr? Renate Steiner. But always at the center of the novel is the city of Paris, the heart and soul of Europe-its alleys and bistros, hotels grand and anonymous, and the Parisians, living every night as though it was their last. As always, Alan Furst brings to life both a dark time in history and the passion of the human hearts that fought to survive it. Advance praise for Mission to Paris The writing in Mission to Paris,sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr? fan, this is definitely a novel for you.-James Patterson I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business-the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.-Vince Flynn Praise for Alan Furst Unfolds like a vivid dream . . . One couldnt ask for a more engrossing novel. -The Wall Street Journal,about Spies of the Balkans Though set in a specific place and time, Fursts books are like Chopins nocturnes: timeless, transcendent, universal. One does not so much read them as fall under their spell.- Los Angeles Times,about The Spies of Warsaw Alan Fursts novels swing a beam into the shadows at the edges of the great events leading to World War II. Readers come knowing hell deliver effortless narrative.- USA Today,about The Foreign Correspondent Positively bristles with plot, characters and atmosphere . . . Dark Voyagehas the ingredients of several genres-the mystery, the historical novel, the espionage thriller, the romance-but it rises above all of them.- The Washington Post,about Dark Voyage No other espionage writer touches [Fursts] stylish forays into Budapest and Berlin, Moscow and Paris. No other writer today captures so well the terror and absurdity of the spy, the shabby tension and ennui of ?migr? communities at the time. His characters are hopeless, lethal, charming. His voice is, above all, knowing.- Boston Sunday Globe,about Blood of Victory

Bryant and May and the Invisible Code

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.01 inches

Width: 6.37 inches

Length: 9.55 inches

Weight: 17.04 oz

Pages: 272