UNDER OCCUPATION

New York: Random House. Often considered the successor to Graham Greene and Eric Ambler as the best writer of historical spy fiction, "Under Occupation" is his 12th spy thriller since the beginning of his "Dark Soldiers" novels in 1988. All 12 are set in or just before or World War II and Nazi occupation of Europe in the early 1940s. In this story, a dying man being chased by the Gestapo in Paris hands a strange-looking document to an innocent novelist, who realizes the document may have great value to the Allied forces, begins a hazardous task of seeing the document into the hands of the Resistance underground. About 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches, 206 pages, bound in dark brown paper-covered boards with brown and gold lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacket shows front cover photo of circa1940s Paris with Eiffel tower in background. Book and Dj are in "as new" condition with no noticeable flaws or damage. Text is free of undelining, highlighting or anyh other markings. Dj is not price-clipped. This is a very nice, collectable example of Furst's ability to evoke the tense, nerve-wracking atmosphere of war-torn, Nazi-occupied Europe. . As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2019.