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01976aam a2200313 i 4500 001 933DA8D2B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 200605t20192019xxu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1703289935 020 $a 9781703289930 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1156966393 040 $a IMF $b eng $e rda $c IMF $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d BGU $d SILO 043 $a e-fr--- 050 4 $a PS3573.A48 $b P374 2019 100 1 $a Wake, Richard, $e author. 245 10 $a Paris in disguise / $c Richard Wake. 260 $a [United States] : $b Manor and State LLC, $c [2019] 300 $a 243 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 0 $a Alex Kovacs thriller series ; $v 5 520 $a "I turned back to the St. Michel fountain. St. Michel, the archangel, battling the devil with his sword--battling and winning. It was an odd fountain, backed up as it was against a building rather than being in the middle of the square and open on all sides. But it was massive, and I think I was always half open-mouthed whenever I looked at it, just staring. The waiter interrupted my catatonia with a third cup of coffee, one I hadn't ordered. "Do you know the story to the fountain?" he asked. I shook my head. "First, it was supposed to depict some symbol of peace," he said. "Then the sculptor changed his mind, or had it changed for him, and it was going to be Napoleon Bonaparte. But then there was an uproar about that, so we got the sword-swinging angel instead. "It is the Paris way. Only at the very end, after exhausting the other possibilities, do we choose the fighter."" -- $c from the back cover. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Espionage, American $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Paris (France) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Spy fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230302012358.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=933DA8D2B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search