But without characters to invest in, readers may be left with what amounts to an album of travel photos: exotic and colorful but with nothing to harness the heart.Īre we not men? We are-well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).Ī zombie apocalypse is one thing. Black packs lots of action and rich local color into her tale of danger. If no one can be trusted, readers have no one to root for. As characters flash by-Dieter von Holz, the RAF pilot who ferries Kate to Paris German double agent Jaro Polish freedom fighter Odile her liaison in Paris, Richards, who escorts her to British HQ in Cairo her Cairo guide, Sasha and shrewd belly dancer Nadira-Kate doesn’t really connect with anyone. But that warning places serious constraints on Black’s mission as a storyteller. Rommel’s right-hand man, Stepney reminds her to trust no one. Before sending her back to Paris with the task of taking out Kurt Lange, Gen. The skills with a rifle she developed growing up in rural Oregon paired with the ease of disguising her as a housewife or nurse make her a favorite sniper of the War Department’s Alfred Stepney. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black has crafted another heart-stopping thrill ride that reveals a portrait of Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation.Sharpshooter Kate Rees returns to the City of Lights for a longer but no less harrowing mission than she had in Three Hours in Paris (2020).Īfter losing her husband and daughter in a German airstrike, Kate wants nothing more than to avenge her family’s death on every Nazi within range. Kate will encounter sheiks and spies, poets and partisans, as she races to keep up with the constantly shifting nature of her assignment, showing every ounce of her Oregonian grit in the process. Rescue a British agent who once saved Kate’s life-and get out.
Assassinate a high-ranking German operative whose knowledge of invasion plans could turn the tide of the war against the Allies. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a risky three-pronged mission in Paris.Įach task is more dangerous than the next: Deliver a package of forbidden biological material. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. October 1942: it’s been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win-or lose-World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris.
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