The Paris Agent: A Gripping Tale of Family Secrets

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From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer--for fans of All the Light We Cannot See!

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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
  • The Things We Cannot Say
  • Before I Let You Go
  • Truths I Never Told You
  • The Warsaw Orphan
  • The German Wife

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368 pages

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JessicaJe
Jan 30, 2024
8/10 stars
It was a little slow starting but the multiple stories all tied in to a shocking ending,
Evie from Ohio
Aug 13, 2023
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BookWorm333
Jul 17, 2023
10/10 stars
If you liked "Verity" by Colleen Hoover, you'll love this!
whatmiareads
Apr 11, 2023
10/10 stars
Finished this book in one reading, I had so many questions within myself after the end of this book but I think the way it ended would have been how I would have ended it if it happened to me too. Not a light book, more to it than just its synopsis.
JayJess
Apr 01, 2023
9/10 stars
I came across the first two chapters of this book, as a preview in the last book I read “Never Never”. I was so hooked with the first two chapters I had to order it, and I must say, this book did not disappoint. This book had me turning the pages, twist after twist. I never actually predicted the ending.

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