Notes From Your BooksellerOne of our favorite cat and mouse thrillers this year. Cara Black sets the tone with a deceptively simple premise: three hours in Paris. Kate Rees has just one job to do, and it's not an easy one. We experience her adventure in real time. The clock is ticking, and we are at the edge of our seats. Along the way, we learn of Rees' reason for putting herself in such danger. As you turn the pages, the tension ramps up. By journey's end, we are "there" with her. And knowing what we eventually know — we wouldn't want to be anywhere else. A thriller from the past that keeps us quite present.,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. 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 assignment: assassinate the Führer. 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 life—all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations, Cara Black, doyenne of the Parisian crime novel, 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.*Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.