A Hero of France by Alan Furst
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is the latest novel in the “Night Soldiers” series from Alan Furst. I believe that this is the first one set in Occupied France, and it’s a fairly good story about a resistance cell led by a man named Mathieu. We don’t really learn how this resistance group came into being, but the action begins in March 1941 and we meet most of the organization as they help RAF crew members who were shot down over France return to the UK.

We also see the German and Vichy French attempts to break the various Resistance organizations, and also the British begin to both support and direct the activities of the Resistance.

To avoid spoilers i won’t really go into to any details of the plot. It is a good read and I enjoyed the book. I think it is better than the last couple of books in the series, but not as good as some of the earlier ones.