Soon after his arrival, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans and, of course, spies of every sort.įor as a celebrity from neutral America - who can travel across the continent freely - Stahl could be very useful indeed. The Parisians know this is their last spring and a time to be passionate. War has been declared, and though bullets and bombs are yet to fly, his decision to shoot a film in Paris seems ill-advised. Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen.Įmbarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women.īut by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave. The author of TV Book Club's SPIES OF THE BALKANS returns with a hugely evocative thriller set in wartime Paris.
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