The World At Night

'Ideally complex, intelligent, hugely intriguing - in the world of the espionage thriller Alan Furst is in a class of his own.' WILLIAM BOYD Jean Casson, a well-dressed, well-bred Parisian film producer, spends his days in the finest cafes and bistros, his evenings at elegant dinner parties and nights in the apartments of numerous women friends - until his agreeable lifestyle is changed for ever by the German invasion. As he struggles to put his world back together and to come to terms with the uncomfortable realities of life under German occupation, he becomes caught up - reluctantly - in the early activities of what was to become the French Resistance, and is faced with the first of many impossible choices.