Red Gold: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780375758591
ISBN: 0375758593
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2002-01-08
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: 2002-01-08
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines—from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war—arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins—emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.
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Summary: Another winner for Furst
Comment: I recently read The Spies of Warsaw and now am reading all the Alan Furst I can get my hands on. Red Gold is another great one- the author writes so well about this time period. What sets Furst apart is the very ordinariness of some of the events and characters- the Gestapo occasionally screw up and let prisoners escape, and not every Resistance operation ends in Hollywood-worthy pyrotechnics. And Jean Casson makes a great world-weary hero.
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Summary: Jean Casson, Filmmaker and Spy
Comment: "Red Gold" brings another episode of the life of Jean Casson, the filmmaker who fell on hard times in Furst's "The World At Night." This time, he's stuck between the resistance movement and the communists, not to mention the Nazis who wouldn't mind another crack at him. Casson soldiers on, through this complicated world that Furst recreates so well for all of us. This is Furst's greatest strength, bringing out the atmosphere, characters, and tension of a country occupied not only by a foreign invasion but a clash about how to fight it.
I recommend reading "The World At Night" before this one. You won't be disappointed in either of them.
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Summary: Hard choices
Comment: I liked this book. I think it gave a good account of what one had to do in Paris in the early 40's. The choices to make are ones that I am glad I have not had to do.
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Summary: "Red Gold" -- A Platinum Spy Thriller From a Master of the Genre
Comment: Alan Furst is a master of the spy novel and, given the texture and substance he gives his characters, we are often left wondering what ultimately happened to them. In this case (and perhaps only this case), the life of a main character continues into a second novel. "Red Gold" picks up where "The World at Night" left off and quenches our thirst for further details of the life of French filmmaker Jean Casson.
In truth, "Red Gold" is the better novel. While "The World at Night" is unmatched in its physical description of wartime France, "Red Gold" carefully details the intricate political situation -- Gaullist and renegade militarist resistance groups; pro-Moscow, anti-Moscow, and former Communists; pro-Nazi French with pictures of Petain on their pianos. Add to this stew the war profiteers and black marketers, and you have a very different, and very ambiguous, picture of World War II-era France -- far different from the post-war propoganda of monolithic French resistance. Casson himself is a complex character without any definite political orientation. He is committed to fighting the Gestapo for personal reasons that amount to simple patriotism. While in "The World At Night" Casson almost seemed drawn into resistance efforts despite himself, by the time "Red Gold" opens Casson has grown as a human being and, while his motives are still ambiguous, his support for the cause is unquestionable.
You can read "Red Gold" without first reading "The World At Night," but I recommend against doing so. If you jump around Furst's novels, you generally lose nothing but an understanding of a wry reference to "The Brasserie Heininger" (which seems to appear in each one -- it is apparently THE PLACE TO BE SEEN in Furst's novelization of wartime Paris.) Reading the two Casson-related novels out of order, however, will cause you to miss important background information and will prevent you from understanding how some minor characters fit into the picture.
I have read Furst's novels in order, starting with "Night Soldiers," and have not found one that deserves fewer than five stars. "Red Gold" is no exception.
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Summary: Great Sense of Time and Place
Comment: Furst is one of my favorite novelists. I have read or listened to all of his books. He writes about a fascinating time; the run up to and the progress of WWII. His characters are three dimensional with flaws, weaknesses, strengths and courage. He takes us to Hungary, Bulgaria, The Soviet Union, Checkslovakia, Poland, Germany and France. I got a very different view of the times, places and protagonists. These novels would make wonderful Film Noir movies.
He peoples the novels with writers, movie producers, diplomats all caught up in the WWII intrigues. All become agents one way or another so you also get a view into the various secret services.
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