num_pages: 350
description: In June of 1940 when Paris fell to the Nazis Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Lightabruptly leaving never to return. To this day no one knows why.Kate Rees a young American markswoman has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assassinate the Fhrer. 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. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction she has no formal spy training. 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. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels Kate is on the run for her lifeall the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.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 temerityand driveto take on Hitler himself.*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.
language: English
title: Three Hours in Paris
publisher: Soho Crime