Their house: A ground-floor apartment at 11 Avenue Foch, one of the most well-heeled streets in the city. The Jacksons: World War I veteran Sumner, a surgeon at Paris's American Hospital, Toquette, a onetime nurse, and their son Phillip. it sounded that way to the Jacksons, too. And if that sounds like a coincidence so precarious only fiction can support it. Its circumstances - an American family in Paris aiding the French resistance from an apartment only a few doors down from the Paris headquarters of the SS - are too cinematic to ignore. It's the least surprising thing in the world to discover that historian Alex Kershaw's latest book, Avenue of Spies, has already been optioned for development with Sony Pictures TV. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Avenue of Spies Subtitle A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied France Author Alex Kershaw
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