![]() ![]() ![]() Fans of The Day of the Jackal won’t want to miss this heart-stopping thriller. Black keeps the suspense high throughout. Despite numerous obstacles and the realization that no plan was made for her safe return, Kate is determined to make her way to London. Hitler orders the regular German police and the Gestapo to catch the sniper within 36 hours. Kate gets Hitler in her crosshairs, but her shot misses and she goes on the run. In June 1940, with little training, she parachutes into Paris, where Hitler is making a brief visit. Her rifle skills, learned as a girl hunting in Oregon, earn her a place in a British intelligence operation to assassinate Hitler. The switch to historical thriller is a seamless one for her, and THREE HOURS IN PARIS will make for one of the more intense reads of 2020. After her husband and daughter die during the German U-boat attack on the battleship Royal Oak, Kate becomes obsessed with defeating Hitler. Cara Black has taken all of her superior knowledge of Paris, which she has used at length in her terrific Aimee Leduc series, and put it to excellent use here. ![]() In October 1939, American Kate Rees, the heroine of this riveting standalone from bestseller Black (the Aimée Leduc series), is living with her naval engineer husband and baby daughter at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy base in Scotland’s Orkney Islands. ![]()
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