My French Whore

The beloved actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder''s first novel My French Whore set during World War I delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It''s almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he is―and never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything Peachy―who as a child of immigrants speaks German―makes the reckless decision to impersonate one of the enemy''s most famous spies.As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller Peachy has access to a world he could never have known existed―a world of sumptuous living world-weary men and available women. But when one of those women―Annie a young beautiful and wary courtesan―turns out to be more than she seems Peachy''s life is transformed forever.