Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer.

The New York Times bestselling author of the Aimée Leduc investigations reimagines history in a masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller. Fans of The Day of the Jackal won't want to miss this heart-stopping thriller.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. Black keeps the suspense high throughout. Despite numerous obstacles and the realization that no plan was made for her safe return, Kate is determined to make her way to London. Hitler orders the regular German police and the Gestapo to catch the sniper within 36 hours.

Kate gets Hitler in her crosshairs, but her shot misses and she goes on the run. In June 1940, with little training, she parachutes into Paris, where Hitler is making a brief visit. Her rifle skills, learned as a girl hunting in Oregon, earn her a place in a British intelligence operation to assassinate Hitler. After her husband and daughter die during the German U-boat attack on the battleship Royal Oak, Kate becomes obsessed with defeating Hitler. In October 1939, American Kate Rees, the heroine of this riveting standalone from bestseller Black (the Aim e Leduc series), is living with her naval engineer husband and baby daughter at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy base in Scotland's Orkney Islands. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers. 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 temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself. 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. 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. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. 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. 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.

Three hours in paris by cara black