![]() ![]() She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. ![]() A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police, private detectives and café owners. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.Ĭara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. ![]() ![]() But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assassinate the Führer. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return. ![]()
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