Not tops for his opus, but still a good read.

I believe someone has mentioned the ending - it's not satisfying, necessarily, but the book was so well written, the characters so wonderful, that I don't mind. It's definitely worth a read - chilling to know what it was like in Paris just before the war. When you had to look over your shoulder at all times, and depend on the kindness of strangers. How lucky we are, those of us who have not experienced that horror!

Surprisingly flat and predictable coming from the writer of The Polish Officer. It felt like reading a different author.

In the old days Furst didn't try to over explain things which he has gone away from which is a drawback of this book. This is just a good book. His other works are great.

How can you rank books on an ABCDF scale when that author is all A's? I suppose I'd call this one an A- but still fantastic. Alan Furst is he best, most subtle author ever in the suspense genre. Every one of his books give you the atmospheric of being wherever the story is - Berlin, Moscow, Madrid and especially Paris. You can smell the onions and garlic cooking, and taste the red wine. Most important, feel the tension the hero goes through as he's threatened or put in danger. Mission to Paris's Stahl is a pretty normal guy, for a movie actor, but he cannot avoid the Nazis in Paris as they are relentless to get him to help their propaganda cause, or to be killed. My opinion: the best book Furst ever wrote is Night Soldiers - it's got it all. KGB recruitment in Bulgaria, war scenes in The Spanish Civil War, pre-war in Paris, French resistance, it's fantastic. A long but perfect novel - every page, scene and dialog is interesting. I've read all of his and they are all great. Enjoy!

In e-book form, this novel is missing pages. Especially frustrating, the ending is missing so I have to imagine Stahl and Renate escaped and lived happily ever after. Definitely worth reading and enjoyable, the pages I could read.

This book is missing several pages including the entire dénouement.

Book is boring.......had repetitive and missing pages. Very disappointing and a waste of my time.

Based on reviews written and the first few pages that I read, I thought this book would be an interesting read. Wrong. While I had high hopes when I began, this became very predictable, trite, superficial and boring. And that was before I began to see duplicated pages along with missing pages. Don't waste your money.

Just finished reading it. It is suspenseful , cleverly constructed, sexy, and entertaining. Although I have no experience reading spy novels, this book is like a movie. I recommend it. DF.