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A review by richardwells
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
3.0
Less a mission, which implies forethought, than a series of events in the making of a part-time, short-term espionage agent. Pre-WWII Europe(Furst's hunting ground) mixes Hollywood and Parisian film making, with love affairs varied, locales exotic, hotels bare-bulbed to the Paris Claridge, and missions suitably dangerous but quite possible.
Furst is, as I think it was my friend Holmes called him, reliable. He's going to turn in a decent read, but it's the first three books of his Night Soldiers series that are knock outs: Night Soldiers, Dark Star, and The Polish Officer. Beyond genre - as they say. Dark Star is the first book I've read in ages that I've closed, and then restarted the next day.
Anyway, Mission to Paris is fun, good not great, a tasty bit which - especially if you like Furst - is worth the read.
Furst is, as I think it was my friend Holmes called him, reliable. He's going to turn in a decent read, but it's the first three books of his Night Soldiers series that are knock outs: Night Soldiers, Dark Star, and The Polish Officer. Beyond genre - as they say. Dark Star is the first book I've read in ages that I've closed, and then restarted the next day.
Anyway, Mission to Paris is fun, good not great, a tasty bit which - especially if you like Furst - is worth the read.