“Beyond Black’s encyclopedic knowledge of Paris, her deft interweaving of WWII history and spycraft with a relatable female protagonist puts Three Hours in Paris on par with other top thrillers about botched missions followed by harrowing escapes-such masterworks as Frederick Forsythe’s The Day of the Jackal, Jack Higgins’ The Eagle Has Landed and Tom Clancy’s Patriot Games. Chances that you’ll be able to put Black’s thriller down once you’ve picked it up? Also slim to none.” -Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Using wits alone, she must evade the Gestapo and make it back across the English Channel. The premise is that an American female sharpshooter is parachuted into France to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It’s mystery master Cara Black’s first standalone novel, a spy story set during World War II in Occupied Paris. Three Hours in Paris isn’t just any old formulaic ‘Get out!’ tale. less …Ī Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2020Ī Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery Book of 2020 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.Ĭara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. 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 assignment: assassinate the Führer. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller, Three Hours in Paris. 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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