Mission to Paris Author:Alan Furst The focus of Mission to Paris is film actor Fredric Stahl, an Austrian-born emigre who has built a successful career in Hollywood and finds himself, in mid-1938, loaned out by his studio to a French film company to star in a Beau Geste kind of flick that ironically is a commentary on the tragedies of war. Arriving in Paris, Sta... more »hl soon finds himself the center of attention for a group of German sympathizers bent on keeping France from opposing Hitler's ambitions in Europe. Stahl's own nascent political views are very much in the other direction and he is gradually dragged into a propaganda war that is heating up in Paris and elsewhere.
All of this happens while he undertakes the demanding work of making the film, Apres La Guerre. Eventually, and very much against his own will and inclination, Stahl's position as a highly visible public figure leads to increasingly dangerous involvement with the Nazis.« less