She's included in the GREAT WOMEN MYSTERY WRITERS by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd editon published in the UK.
She received the Medaille de la Ville de Paris for services to French culture. Her nationally bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, German and Hebrew. 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. This gripping story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself.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. Cara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in
The run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, she is on Thrust into the redhot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregonįinds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. Instruction, she has no formal spy training. Infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with aĭangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in a masterful, In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-Ībruptly leaving, never to return.
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