****From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge
comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and
unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected
twists and deliverance" (The Seattle Times). **- THE INSPIRATION FOR
THE NETFLIX SERIES *TRANSATLANTIC
MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor,
arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he
and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue
Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and
immigrate to the United States.
Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S.
immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas,
seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make
impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound
pressure--and in a state of irrevocable personal change.
In this dazzling work of historical fiction--one that illuminates
previously unexplored elements of Fry's story, and has, since its
publication, brought us new insight into his life.