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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The Red Rooster (Le Cock Rouge) by Michael Wallace. This is a story that begins at the Red Rooster, a restaurant/bar in occupied France in 1940. It has a myriad of characters: prostitutes, destitutes, Nazi's, Zazous, Maqui, Gestapo, and German businessmen. It is the story of Gabriella, a 20 year old whose father is taken by the Gestapo and she does what a girl has to do to survive in WWII occupied France. Once of the best French occupation stories that I've read and WWII is both my passion and the topic of my master's thesis, so I've read a lot of them! ( ) no reviews | add a review
Of all the desperate women in German-occupied Paris, Gabriela Reyes is the least likely to scratch out her survival as a whore for a Gestapo agent. After fascists murdered her mother and brother and tortured her father in an insane asylum, she hates the Germans as much as she fears them. But when she discovers the man responsible for destroying her family, she decides to become his mistress to try to free her father and avenge her family.Helmut von Cratz is a war profiteer using his wealth to undermine the Third Reich and is one meeting with an American agent away from ending the German occupation of France.But Gabriela's sudden appearance as Colonel Hoekman's mistress jeopardizes Helmut's careful plans. Now he must decide: will he abandon his plans, or will he sacrifice yet another woman to the German war machine? No library descriptions found. |
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