The Paris Diversion: A Novel

ISBN: 1524761508

Author: Pavone, Chris

Condition: New

The most clever plot twist of the year.-Washington PostI nominate Kate Moore, the protagonist of Chris Pavones sizzling new thriller The Paris Diversion, for patron saint of working wives and mothers everywhere.-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewThe Paris Diversion is the best espionage novel Ive read this year. Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful, this is Pavones finest novel to date-and thats saying something.-Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me OnceDeliciously twisty . . . This involving work has been skillfully engineered for maximum reader enjoyment.-The Wall Street JournalFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats. Kate Moore is back in a pulse-pounding thriller to discover that a massive terror attack across Paris is not what it seems-and that it involves her familyAmerican expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her rounds of chores, and meets her husband Dexter at their regular café: a leisurely start to a normal day, St-Germain-des-Prés.Across the Seine, tech CEO Hunter Forsyth stands on his balcony, wondering why his police escort just departed, and frustrated that his cell service has cut out; Hunter has important calls to make, not all of them technically legal.And on the nearby rue de Rivoli, Mahmoud Khalid climbs out of an electricians van and elbows his way into the crowded courtyard of the worlds largest museum. He sets down his metal briefcase, and removes his windbreaker.Thats when people start to scream.Everyone has big plans for the day. Dexter is going to make a small fortune, finally digging himself out of a deep financial hole, via an extremely risky investment. Hunter is going to make a huge fortune, with a major corporate acquisition that will send his companys stock soaring. Kate has less ambitious plans: preparations for tonights dinner party-one of those homemaker obligations she still hasnt embraced, even after a half-decade of this life-and an uneventful workday at the Paris Substation, the clandestine cadre of operatives that shes been running, not entirely successfully, increasingly convinced that every day could be the last of her career. But every day is also a fresh chance to prove her own relevance, never more so than during todays momentous events.And Mahmoud? He is planning to die today. And he wont be the only one.