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

“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan returns with a gripping novel inspired by the true story of Operation Paperclip: a controversial secret US intelligence program that employed former Nazis after WWII.

Berlin, 1930—When a wave of change sweeps a radical political party to power, Sofie von Meyer Rhodes’s academic husband benefits from the ambitions of its newly elected chancellor. Although Sofie and Jürgen do not share the social views growing popular in Hitler’s Germany, Jürgen’s position with its burgeoning rocket program changes their diminishing fortunes for the better. But as Sofie watches helplessly, her beloved Berlin begins to transform, forcing her to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their young family’s security, and what the price for their neutrality will be.

Twenty years later, Jürgen is one of the many German scientists offered pardons for their part in the war, and taken to America to work for its fledgling space program. For Sofie, this is the chance to exorcise the ghosts that have followed her across the ocean, and make a fresh start in her adopted country. But her neighbors aren’t as welcoming or as understanding as she had hoped. When scandalous rumors about the Rhodes family’s affiliation with Hitler’s regime spreads, idle gossip turns to bitter rage, and the act of violence that results will tear apart Sofie’s community and her family before the truth is finally revealed.

“An unforgettable novel that explores important questions highly relevant to the world today.” —Christine Wells, author of Sisters of the Resistance

Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!

For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for:Before I Let You GoThe Things We Cannot SayTruths I Never Told YouThe Warsaw OrphanThe Story Keeper

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