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The Paris Agent
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"The author’s research has captured the tension that those who lived through that time experienced at deep levels. Kelly Rimmer’s scenes in both eras are fraught with anxiety, urging the reader to keep turning the page, anxious to learn about each character’s experiences, right up to the very end." — New York Journal of Books
For fans of fast-paced historical thrillers like Our Woman in Moscow and The Rose Code, Kelly Rimmer’s dramatic new novel follows two female SOE operatives whose lives will be determined by a double agent in their midst.
Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory—in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war.
Moved by her father’s frustration, Noah’s daughter Charlotte begins a search for answers that resurrects the stories of Chloe and Fleur, the code names for two otherwise ordinary women whose lives intersect in 1943 when they’re called up by the SOE for deployment in France. Taking enormous risks to support the allied troops with very little information or resources, the women have no idea they’re at the mercy of a double agent among them who's causing chaos within the French circuits, whose efforts will affect the outcome of their lives…and the war.
But as Charlotte’s search for answers bears fruit, overlooked clues come to light about the identity of the double agent—with unsettling hints pointing close to home—and more shocking events are unearthed from the dangerous, dramatic last days of the war that lead to Chloe and Fleur’s eventual fates.
For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for
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Reviews
Read it in 24 hours. Gripping
By christineaastman2
Loved the writing, details, storyline. Perfection.
By Kimba0919
I was very confused about what was going on for the first half the book. I kept confusing, who was who and what mission they were on. The second half of the book, something really clicked with me and it all made sense. I really enjoyed this book about two courageous women!
By Lainie Amethyst
Good story mixing the researched truth with some nuances of fiction. Kelly Rimmer paints a beautiful, albeit haunting, portrait of the women of the SOE and what they endured and sacrificed so that the future of the world might be free.
By clbtvs7
Almost put the book away half way through. So far my least favorite from Kelly Rimmer. Very detailed but not flowing with suspense like all her other books I’ve read.
By Jeanne C.