Red Gold: A Novel

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Autumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling toward Moscow. Stalin has issued a decree: All partisan operatives are to strike behind enemy lines—from Kiev to Brittany. Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war—arms dealers, lawyers, spies, and assassins—emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a well-to-do film producer, now a target of the Gestapo living on a few francs a day. As the occupation tightens, Casson is drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist Party. Reprisals are brutal. At last the real resistance has begun. Red Gold masterfully re-creates the shadow world of French resistance in the darkest days of World War II.

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±1±: Best Buy Former film producer Jean Casson returns as the main character, still struggling against man's inhumanity to man, in a France that seems to have given-in to its inevitable domination by Germany. After Furst's earlier "The World At Night", where Casson first chose to rebel, he is now a more skilled agent of resistance. He is tougher and more inventive, yet still vulnerable and human. His loves are real and passionate, and his losses accepted. They come with the war.

In his 1999 novel, "Red Gold", when author Alan Furst describes this good man's descent into poverty and desperation during the horrors of Nazi occupation in Paris, we shiver in the dank and desolate hotel room with him, and we can almost taste the foul soup and moldy bread. Furst is that good a writer. His willingness to allow small victories and moments of humanity provides welcome bits of redemption.

Furst knows about war and rough living, especially for the nomads from eastern Europe, who hate the nazis and fight desperately to escape the hold of mother Russia, whether in occupied France, Bulgaria or Madrid. Through his spare and vivid descriptions of places, and of real people thrust into unbelievable conditions, we learn how it must have happened in France. How people got involved with underground movements, how they compromised their friends, and how they became other people in order to simply survive. By extension, a reader can better understand how danger, violence, compromise, greed and deceit are still happening in different theaters like Iraq and Somalia and Afghanistan.

Furst is a wonderful, inventive writer, who knows how to tell complex stories in a simple, profound way. on Sale!

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The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy, Book 3)

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"You want to know the truth."

Sonea has learned much since she was but a penniless urchin possessing an awesome untapped ability. She has earned the grudging respect of her fellow novices and a place in the Magicians' Guild. But there is much she wishes she had never learned -- what she witnessed, for example, in the underground chamber of the mysterious High Lord Akkarin . . . and the knowledge that the Guild is being observed closely by an ancient fearsome enemy.

Still, she dares not ignore the terrifying truths the High Lord would share with her, even though she fears it may be base trickery, a scheme to use her astonishing powers to accomplish his dark aims. For Sonea knows her future is in his hands -- and that only in the shadows will she achieve true greatness . . . if she survives.

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±1±: Best Buy The third volume is an enjoyable wrap up to the series. If you enjoyed the first two, you'll like it. It's quite a bit longer than the first two, though.

Like the first two volumes, it has its flaws. There are some interesting characters, and tantalizing hints to the nature of the world outside, but there are also long, pointless sections, and a few things that just don't make sense.

But I like Canavan's characters, perhaps mostly because they seem to actually listen to each other. So much bad fantasy creates conflict from the characters unwillingness or inability to talk to each other. And Canavan's characters, shockingly, also seem to be able to entertain the idea that they might be wrong.

I get so tired of cardboard villains and always-right heroes that this book's conflict between the Guild and the High Lord was quite refreshing. Both sides are interesting characters who, based on their own view of the world, feel that they are working for the greater good of all. They just disagree on methods. I find this vastly more interesting than fighting someone because they are "Evil".

Canavan has also clearly left room for more stories set in this world. If she writes them, I'll read them. I suspect she's going to just keep getting better.
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