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The best-selling author of the Liberator brings the true story of an American doctor in Paris and his heroic espionage during World War II to life.
One of the most unique residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, Foch is a hotbed of Paris’ bold spies, murdered secret police, immoral whistleblowers and Vichy collaborators. So when American physician Sumner Jackson lived with his wife and youngest son, Phillip, and found himself trapped in the liberation network of French resistance, he knew the bets could not be high. On the way to No. 31 is the “crazy sadism” Theodor Dannecker, an Eichmann Protégé accused of expelling French Jews to concentration camps. No. 84 is the Paris headquarters of Gestapo, run by Nazi Germany’s most effective spy hunter.
Jackson’s office in the U.S. hospital was at the center of Allied and Axis plots, and Jackson smuggled the fallen Allied fighter pilot France, a job that hospital directors were closely linked with cooperative Vichy. After witnessing a cruel roundup of Jewish friends, Jackson invites Liberation to officially operate in his home on the 11th, but the noose quickly starts to tighten. When his Nazi neighbors discover his secret life, he and his family are forced to walk into a dark heart journey on the war-torn continent, with little chance of returning.
Alex Kershaw, drawing on a large number of major source materials and extensive interviews with Phillip Jackson, recreates the City of Light on the darkest days. The myriad stories of the Jackson family anchor the suspenseful narrative, Kershaw vividly and instantly dazzled readers with the best spy thriller. Shocked by the tension in World War II Europe, Spy Avenue introduces us to the brave doctor who risked everything to defy Hitler.
Publisher: Crown; Reprint (August 2, 2016)
Language: English
Paperback: 320 pages
ISBN-10:0804140057
ISBN-13:978-0804140058
Item Weight: 2.31 lbs
Size: 5.21 x 0.73 x 7.93 inches
Customers say
Customers find the story well-told and inspiring. They describe the book as a nice, well-written read that can be easily done in a weekend. The author did an excellent job of researching and writing the content, providing detailed information and characterizations. Readers appreciate the brave family’s survival and determination to do what was right. The book holds their interest until the end and is a good reminder on how important it is to respond.
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