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F. Scott Fitzgerald: American Spy

Did you know that, in Spring 1940, the once famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald was recruited by an agent of the French Resistance to assassinate the premier of Vichy France? Fitzgerald had hijacked the “Jazz Age” and made it his own in the Roaring 20s, but now as a struggling, impecunious alcoholic, his comforts are Coca-Colas and the elusive embrace of his paramour, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. Hemingway is the real ticket, making big money, but when our narrator Henri Duval, a double agent for the Vichy government and the French Resistance, surfaces at the legendary Garden of Allah hotel on Sunset Boulevard across from the famous Schwab’s Pharmacy, he hatches a harebrained scheme that might just change the entire course of history and restore Fitzgerald to his rightful position on the top of the literary heap. In Duval’s secret correspondence to his colleague in Washington D.C., we eavesdrop on wild nights with the Marx Brothers; intrigues engineered by dangerous Kewpie dolls; passionate amours with Marion Davies; and run-ins with William Randolph Hearst. The action culminates in a mission to Paris and the seat of the Nazi-occupied French government in Vichy, by way of a Manhattan visit with editor Maxwell Perkins, enroute to a clandestine meeting with Charles De Galle at Heathrow Airport and an appointment with destiny and the premier of Vichy France, Marshal Phillipe Pétain.

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