Red Gold: A Novel

Alan Furst

Random House, Dec 31, 1998 - Fiction - 258 pages

"In their midst is Jean Casson, once a producer of gangster films, now living on a few francs a day and hunted by the Gestapo. As the German occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist party. Their NKVD contact, a former Comintern operative named Weiss - his seventeenth name - begins to orchestrate a series of attacks against the Germans. Reprisals are brutal. Fear spreads through the city. At last the real resistance has begun."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 34
• Section 3: 35
• Section 4: 67
• Section 5: 95
• Section 6: 133
• Section 7: 161
• Section 8: 189
• Section 9: 211
• Section 10: 243
• Section 11: 259
• Section 12: 261

About the author

Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles, most notably for Esquire, and as a columnist for the International Herald Tribune His early novels (1976-1983) achieved limited success. However, the 1988 publication of Night Soldiers inspired by a 1984 trip to Eastern Europe on assignment for Esquire revitalized his career. It was the first of his highly original novels about espionage in Europe before and during the Second World War. Born in New York on February 20, 1941, he lived for long periods in France, especially Paris where he was awarded a Fulbright teaching fellowship. In 2011, the Tulsa Library Trust in Tulsa, Oklahoma selected Furst to receive its Helmerich Award, a literary prize given annually to honor a distinguished author's body of work He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2012 with his title The Mission to Paris and Midnight in Europe in 2014. Furst again made the New York Times Bestseller in 2016 with his novel a Hero of France.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Red Gold: A Novel; Jean Casson bk. 02; Night soldiers bk. 05
• Author: Alan Furst
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Random House, 1998
• ISBN: 0679451862, 9780679451860
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / World War II; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Espionage