Autumn 1939, war has been declared, and though bullets and bombs are yet to fly, Frederic Stahl's decision to shoot a film in Paris seems ill-advised. Soon after his arrival, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, and spies of every sort. As a celebrity from neutral America - who can travel across the continent freely - Stahl could be very useful indeed ...
'Ideally complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing, Furst is in a class of his own' WILLIAM BOYD on Night Soldiers