Read PDF The War Begins in Paris by Theodore Wheeler
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe.Paris, 1938. Two women Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite cohort of foreign correspondents stationed around the city; the other, Jane, a brash, legendary American journalist, who is soon to become a fascist propagandist.When World War II makes landfall in the City of Lights, Mielle falls under Jane’s spell, growing ever more intoxicated by her glamour, selfpossession, and reckless confidence. But as this recklessness devolves into militarism and an utter lack of humanity, Mielle is
seized by a series of visions that show her an inescapable Jane Anderson must die, and Mielle must be the one to kill her.Structured as a series of dispatches filed from around Europe and based on the misadventures of a real journalistturned-Nazi mouthpiece, The War Begins in Paris is a cat-andmouse suspense that examines the relentlessness of propaganda, the allure of power, and how far one woman will go for the sake of her morality.