The Red Rooster

Michael Wallace has done it again! The Red Rooster is a gripping historical fiction about a young woman from Spain, a refugee in Nazi-occupied Paris, simply struggling to stay alive until she unwittingly finds herself entangled in a daring French resistance plot that reaches to the upper levels of the German SS and beyond.

This book kept me on the edge of my seat throughout. It was one of those books I could hardly put down once I had begun. The characters are well-developed, the plot believable, and the historical research meticulous. Wallace's writing paints a vivid picture of life in occupied France, but it is the action in the book that really keeps you turning the pages. This may be his best book to date.