The Paris Agent, Kelly Rimmer
The Paris Agent, Kelly Rimmer
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The Paris Agent

Author: Kelly Rimmer

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden, Fiona Hardingham, Emma Fenney

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2023


Synopsis

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 and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

A “MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE” byHarper's BazaarB&N ReadsBookBubGoodreadsFresh Fiction"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 forThe Things We Cannot Say Before I Let You GoTruths I Never Told YouThe Warsaw OrphanThe German Wife

About Kelly Rimmer

Kelly Rimmer is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of ten novels, including The Secret Daughter and The Things We Cannot Say. Her books have sold more than one million copies, and have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. Kelly lives in rural Australia with her family and fantastically naughty dogs, Sully and Basil.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on July 14, 2023

When an important story is retold to readers in future generations in a fictional manner, it may be easy to fall into the comfortability that the story is in fact, fiction. Kelly Rimmer is an author I was yet to read, so with my thanks to @betterreadingau I was grateful to rectify. This is a story o......more

I have been a big fan of Kelly Rimmer for a long time now. I get so excited every time that I see that she has written a new book because I know that I am in for a unique and exciting experience. The Paris Agent was no exception. It was told in a duel timeline. The female protagonists, Chloe and Fle......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on January 14, 2024

2.5 stars. It makes me sad to give this low rating to one of my favourite authors. But I have to be honest in my ratings otherwise it makes no sense to review books. I had expected this to be a 4-5 star book. 1970: a daughter and her father are researching the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the s......more

Goodreads review by Karren on June 28, 2023

Charlotte Ainsworth has no idea her father wasn't a mechanic during the Second World War, he was in fact a British agent working in France and a brave one. In the summer of 1970, Charlotte is stunned when her dad Noah tells her the truth, she really can’t imagine her father being SOE and she wondere......more

Goodreads review by "Avonna on June 15, 2023

Check out all my reviews at: [URL not allowed] THE PARIS AGENT by Kelly Rimmer is a moving historical fiction novel written with dual intertwining timelines; one set during WWII in France following two female SOE operatives and the other set in 1970 England with a survivor trying to u......more