Historical Novels: A Reading

A Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers in the early days of WWI, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission in Robert Olen Butler’s Paris in the Dark. B.A. Shapiro’s new novel The Collector’s Apprentice is an unforgettable tale about the lengths to which people will go for their obsession, whether it be art, money, love, or vengeance.