Red Gold

by Furst

In another of Alan Furst's immensely popular World War II mysteries, Jean Casson (hero of THE WORLD AT NIGHT) returns to Nazi-occupied Paris in the fall of 1941 and checks into a seedy hotel. He's down on his luck, depressed, and bored: like the city he loves, he has lost his joie de vivre. Joining an undercover unit, he becomes involved in an operation that's running guns to the French resistance in an attempt to subvert the Vichy government. In the process, he meets Helene Schreiber, who has problems of her own, and who is determined not to fall for Casson. But things on all fronts rapidly get out of control....

Editions of Red Gold

ISBN 9780375758591	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 2002	Price $3.25	Good
ISBN 9780679451860	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1999	Price $9.80	Very Good
ISBN 9780736689250	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Books on Tape	Date 1999	Price $5.04	Very Good
ISBN 9780708942536	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Ulverscroft Large Print Books	Date 2000	Price $1.85	Used - Good
ISBN 9780006499039	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Trafalgar Square	Date 1999	Price £4.00

Media Reviews

"As in THE WORLD AT NIGHT, Furst proves himself a master at capturing the bleak and mean mood of wartime Paris....Furst tries to boost the story's credibility by having his characters offer analyses of the historical and political context in which the narrative takes place....Furst also peppers his dialogue with little phrases or sayings in French (which he then frequently has to translate), as if to remind the reader that they speak a different language in France. But neither device succeeds in bringing most of his characters alive: they are what they do."

First Line

Casson woke in a room in a cheap hotel and smoked his last cigarette. The window by the bed was open and the shade, yellow and faded, bumped gently against the sill in the morning breeze. When it moved he could see fierce blue sky, a bar of sunlight on the lead sheeting of the roof across the courtyard. Something in the air, he thought, a ghost of something, and the sky was lit a certain way.

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