![]() ![]() About the Author Alan Furst has lived for long periods in France, especially in Paris, and has travelled as a journalist in Eastern Europe and Russia. ![]() ![]() For as a celebrity from neutral America - who can travel across the continent freely - Stahl could be very useful indeed.Returning to the Brasserie Heiniger, and some of the colourful cast from The World at Night, this is a headily atmospheric portrait of a continent in the grip of The Phony War. Soon after his arrival, Stahl is drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, and of course, spies of every sort. 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. But by autumn 1939, the unease in Europe has spread even to Stahl's glamorous enclave. Embarking in America, his matinee idol looks and Old-World charm took him to Hollywood, and a life of movies and women. Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at the age of seventeen. ![]()
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