Avenue of spies by Alex kershaw

n the leafy Avenue Foch, one of Paris's most exclusive streets, their son, Philip, watched from their apartment at number 11 as the Nazis occupied their block. With the city crawling with spies and murderers, and Jewish residents rounded up and herded into trains, the family made a fateful decision to stay and join the resistance, operating from Sumner's perch at the American Hospital and from their very apartment, where just a few houses away open windows vented the cries of fellow resistance fighters being tortured by the Gestapo. In Avenue of Spies, Alex Kershaw unfolds the thrilling, shattering story of an impossibly brave family, one whose game of cat and mouse with evil would ultimately send them on a journey into the black heart of the war-torn continent from which there was little chance of return.