Red Gold – Alan Furst
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Title: Red Gold
Author: Alan Furst
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 1999
Audiobook Copyright: 2005
Genre: Thriller
Series Name: Night Soldiers
Position in Series: 05
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Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly
From the atmosphere established in his fifth novel’s first sentence
("Casson woke in a room in a cheap hotel and smoked his last cigarette")
to the knock on the door at the denouement, Furst again proves himself
the master of his chosen terrain?behind the lines of Nazi occupation
in France during WWII. His previous novel, The World at Night, opened
in May 1940, with French film producer Jean Casson setting out to take
newsreels of the defense of France’s Maginot line and becoming swamped
in the German invasion. It is now September 1941, and Casson, broke
and hiding under a false name, is about to commit fully to the Resistance.
As a man of indeterminate political affiliation, he’s chosen to negotiate
between the Resistance and the French Communists, who, with the German
army on the verge of taking Moscow, have orders from Stalin to sabotage
the Nazis in any way possible. The "red gold" SS looters try to steal
in Russia is a metaphoric payment in blood, while in Paris informers
are everywhere and collaboration is still rampant. Furst’s textured
plot?exhibiting shifting loyalties and betrayals; lone, often hopeless
acts of heroism; and lovers bravely parting?makes for spellbinding drama.
(In one scene, a clandestine radio operator broadcasts a few moments
too long, and hears soldiers’ boots racing up the stairs to get him.)
Furst, who deserves the comparisons he’s earned to Graham Greene and
Eric Ambler, seems to be settling into a franchise here, rather than
reaching for the fire he caught in his third novel, The Polish Officer.
Casson’s story unfolds convincingly, however, and as it continues here
to April of 1942, promises a few more episodes to come from this author’s
tried and true brand of masterfully detailed espionage.
From Library Journal
Veteran novelist Furst’s second effort featuring former film producer
Jean Casson is just as good as his first (The World at Night, LJ 5/15/96)
and exerts the marvelous emotional pull of a world-weary postwar French
film. The time is 1941; the place, occupied Paris. Reluctantly, Casson
becomes involved in the French Resistance as an intermediary between
feuding factions of partisans. An associate exclaims, "Well, Casson,
you’re in luck…. You may not have found patriotism, but it appears…to
have found you." Communists and loyalists jockey for advantage against
each other; no one trusts anyone. Casson is a wonderful character under
pressure, outwardly cynical but intensely romantic at heart. An officer
asks, "What’s Casson like?" The response: "Intelligent, a good heart,
some professional success, some failure." Comparison with Eric Ambler
and Graham Greene is inevitable. A classy thriller, strong on mood and
action; highly recommended.
From Kirkus Reviews
More masterful, richly atmospheric WWII spy fiction sends Furst’s despairing,
dissolute, but delightfully resourceful film producer Jean Casson on
yet another existential errand among the fiends and fanatics of the
French Resistance. Having spied, loved, and lost in The World at Night
(1996), Casson is spending the cold autumn of 1941 hiding out from the
Gestapo in a sleazy Paris pensione, spending his dwindling pile of Vichy
francs on sex and cigarettes. Fearing that his spiteful landlady may
turn him in, he pawns his overcoat, falls in with a gang of makes a
fortune selling a sack of stolen sugar, and loses everything at a decadent
nightclub when he’s robbed and beaten by gendarmes who, instead of tossing
him to the Nazis, convey him to his former intelligence commander, DeGrave,
now a Vichy bureaucrat. DeGrave wants Casson to dig up a few of his
left-leaning filmmaking cronies to provide liaison between a group of
Vichy officers, eager to subvert the Nazi occupation, and a fanatical
group of Communist terrorist fighters, whose reckless bloodlust is doing
more harm than good. Casson, sunk in Gallic funk, accepts becausewell,
hed rather sleep in a better hotel. The Communists, supervised by a
fearsomely intelligent fatalist named Weiss, come across as a mixed
bag of trembling adolescents, cocky Jews, and violent thugs. Alas, Weiss
wont take Casson seriously until Casson delivers to him a thousand machine
guns, with ammunition. DeGrave agrees to finance the guns, and slyly
gives Casson a reason to live by introducing him to Helene Shrieber,
another wounded soul who beds him, then warily permits herself to fall
in love. Despite the occasional history lecture, Furst’s intricate exploration
of a stylishly lethal war-torn Paris never fails to fascinate. Witty,
inventive, distinctively French film-noir espionage, told with the terse
brutality and jaundiced romanticism of Chandler and Hammett at their
peak.
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