It’s one of those books where you really want to take a peek at the end because you can’t stand it, but you won’t do it because you are enjoying this terrifying ride too much.
About halfway through and I still had no idea at all how this might end. You get a little breather, but then more suspense. Very exciting, tense, short, short chapters work perfectly because about the time your stress level is at its breaking point the scene or POV shifts. It’s as if they are all making connections but the connections are slightly off, and nobody realizes it. This book is deliciously complicated and convoluted. There is so much more beneath.įate, happenstance, (bad) luck, coincidence, whatever it is, nothing is as it seems or goes as expected. The description of the book barely scratches the surface. And from that point the story takes off and never slows down until the very last page. She is given a crash course in spy craft and put on the plane. Even if she is killed or captured, by killing the Führer she will have achieved a small victory in honor of her dead family. Life doesn’t have much meaning for American Kate Rees since she lost her husband and infant daughter in a Luftwaffe bombing, so when she is recruited by British intelligence to put her markswoman skills to use and parachute into Paris and assassinate Hitler she sees her chance for revenge. Show More Goebbels, his propaganda minister, and pioneer of faux news, edited the newsreel of Hitler's visit! And from this little bit of hidden history she has reimagined events and crafted a masterful thriller. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color e … ( more) 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 temerityâ?and driveâ?to take on Hitler himself.
When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her lifeâ?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 assignment: assassinate the Führer. HTML: In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Lightâ?abruptly leaving, never to return.
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