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In German-occupied Paris, a group of unlikely people join in collaboration to smuggle Allied airmen south to Spain. One particular intrepid heroes happens to be North american. The Siren of Paris, the debut work of historical fiction by David LeRoy, tells a searing tale of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and war that brings to vibrant life the shimmering City of Signals during its darkest hours during World Warfare II. The storyplot begins in 1939, when Marc Tolbert, the French-born son of a prominent American family, takes off for Paris to follow his imagine becoming an artist. Marc's life soon sparkles in the ex-pat field in Paris. His new friend Dora presents him to a group that includes the famous Sylvia Beach, owner of the bookstore Shakespeare & Company; and he allows a job with William Bullitt, US ambassador to France. At skill school, he finds himself further enchanted by the alluring model Marie. Marc's Parisian reverie, however, is soon clouded over by the increasing menace from Germany. As Americans scramble to escape Paris, he finds himself trapped by the war, and nearly fulfills his fate on the devastating day of June 17, 1940, aboard the RMS Lancastria. Upon time for Paris, his fate grows more stressed still, as he smuggles Allied airmen through the North american Medical center to the Paris Amount of resistance underground, until a serious betrayal leads him in to the hands of the Gestapo and onto Buchenwald. Rigorously investigated and attractive in historical details, The Siren of Paris reimagines one of history's most turbulent times through the prism of your American abroad in Europe's most harrowing days. Poignant, gripping, and thought-provoking, The Siren of Paris mines the real human issue of revenge versus forgiveness, and vividly captures the conflicted talk about of survival. Author: In writing his first book, The Siren of Paris, David LeRoy drew after his longtime interest in philosophy, the aesthetic arts, myth, storytelling, mindset, and ocean liner travel. Throughout a trip to France to study art in the fall of 2012, LeRoy was more and more intrigued by the French Amount of resistance, particularly when his research revealed the role of Americans in the Amount of resistance, as well as the limited means of escape from Europe as the war escalated. LeRoy holds a bachelor of arts in beliefs and religion.

Category: Historical