This is the true story of an American doctor, his wife, and teenage son who joined a Resistance network in World War II Paris. Dr. Sumner Jackson and his wife Toquette, lived on Avenue Foch alongside some of the city's wealthiest residents. In 1940, the Gestapo took over neighboring mansions. Dr. Jackson helped hide Allied airmen in the neutral American Hospital early in the war, and he and Toquette eventually used their home as a Resistance courier stop right under the nose of the Gestapo commandant. The final third of the book recounts the Jackson's capture and tragic price they paid as the conflict came to a close. The conclusion is bitterly ironic as their Nazi captors largely escaped justice.
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