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“I nominate Kate Moore, the protagonist of Chris Pavone’s sizzling new thriller The Paris Diversion, for patron saint of working wives and mothers everywhere.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“The Paris Diversion is the best espionage novel I’ve read this year. Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful, this is Pavone’s finest novel to date—and that’s saying something.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me Once
“Deliciously twisty . . . This involving work has been skillfully engineered for maximum reader enjoyment.”—The Wall Street Journal
From 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 family
American 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 electrician’s van and elbows his way into the crowded courtyard of the world’s largest museum. He sets down his metal briefcase, and removes his windbreaker.
That’s 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 company’s stock soaring. Kate has less ambitious plans: preparations for tonight’s dinner party—one of those homemaker obligations she still hasn’t embraced, even after a half-decade of this life—and an uneventful workday at the Paris Substation, the clandestine cadre of operatives that she’s 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 today’s momentous events.
And Mahmoud? He is planning to die today. And he won’t be the only one.
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“I nominate Kate Moore, the protagonist of Chris Pavone’s sizzling new thriller The Paris Diversion, for patron saint of working wives and mothers everywhere.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“The Paris Diversion is the best espionage novel I’ve read this year. Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful, this is Pavone’s finest novel to date—and that’s saying something.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me Once
“Deliciously twisty . . . This involving work has been skillfully engineered for maximum reader enjoyment.”—The Wall Street Journal
From 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 family
American 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 electrician’s van and elbows his way into the crowded courtyard of the world’s largest museum. He sets down his metal briefcase, and removes his windbreaker.
That’s 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 company’s stock soaring. Kate has less ambitious plans: preparations for tonight’s dinner party—one of those homemaker obligations she still hasn’t embraced, even after a half-decade of this life—and an uneventful workday at the Paris Substation, the clandestine cadre of operatives that she’s 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 today’s momentous events.
And Mahmoud? He is planning to die today. And he won’t be the only one. - reviews
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"It is a dangerous time to be alive." Indeed, as this fast-paced thriller by seasoned mysterian Pavone (The Travelers, 2016, etc.) proves.A siren wails in Paris, a once-rare sound often heard in these times of terror. It's gone off because a jihadi has strapped a bomb to himself and is standing in front of the Louvre, "in the epicenter of Western civilization," waiting for his moment. But is he a jihadi? Who's put him up to this dastardly deed, and why? That's for Kate Moore, deep-cover CIA agent, "sidewalk-swimming in a sea of expat moms," to suss out. Kate lives in a shadow world, so hidden away that even her hedge-fund-master husband doesn't have a clue about what she does: "Dexter has been forced to accept that she's entitled to her secrets," Pavone writes, adding, "He's had plenty of his own." Indeed, and in the shadowy parallel world of speculative finance, he's teamed up with a fast-living entrepreneur who wants nothing more than to become superrich and run off with his "assistant-concubine." Hunter Forsyth is about to announce a huge deal, but suddenly he's disappeared, whisked away by shadowy people who, by the thin strings of suspense, have something to do with that bomb across town. So does a vengeful young mom, strapped to a useless husband and bent on payback for a long-ago slight. All this is red meat to Kate, who's tired of the domestic life, no matter how much a sham, and is happier than a clam when "running her network of journalists, bloggers, influencers, as well as drug dealers, thieves, prostitutes, and cops, plus diplomats and soldiers, maitre d's and concierges and bartenders and shopkeepers." With all those players, mercenaries, and assorted bad guys thrown into the mix, you just know that the storyline is going to be knotty, and it resolves in a messy spatter of violence that's trademark Pavone and decidedly not for the squeamish.A satisfying puzzler, one to shelve alongside le Carré, Forsyth, and other masters of foreign intrigue.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Pavone delivers another thoroughly immersive, stylish, and intelligent thriller (following The Travelers, 2016). In a move that is sure to please fans of The Expats (2012), he returns here to the lives of Kate and Dexter Moore, now living in Paris after former CIA agent Kate managed to extract her cyberbanker husband from a trap into which he had been lured by two artists of the long con, Julia and Bill. Pavone again unspools a tightly wound plot in which the levels of deception keep multiplying. It starts with a terrorist in front of the Louvre holding a dirty bomb. As the standoff continues, Kate, who is back with the agency in a shady, off-the-books capacity, starts digging into what's going on, hoping to solidify her position with her superiors, and soon discovers that Dexter may be fiddling on the fringes of cybercrime again, out to profit from the downfall of an arrogant financier. And what's with Julia and Bill turning up in Paris, seemingly ready to bury the hatchet? But burying it where? Yes, Pavone keeps us zooming through this book to find the answers to those and many other questions, but, in the middle of that race to the finish line, most readers are likely to find themselves slowing down a bit, savoring the richness of virtually every character who flashes by and especially taking time to contemplate Kate, who just may be the most fascinating, believably human fictional spy to appear since George Smiley shuffled his bedraggled self onto the stage nearly 60 years ago.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Like Louise Penny, Pavone is the kind of thriller writer who can cut a wide swath into multiple audiences, from genre fans to more-literary readers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
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A good thriller isn't so much written as built, and Pavone is one of the genre's most consistently dazzling architects. This follow-up to The Expats and The Travellers finds wife, mother, and spy handler Kate Moore in the middle of a terrorist scare in front of the Louvre. As she digs for answers, she finds that the entire operation might be a cover for another move entirely: an international conglomerate is preparing a big move worth millions, and Kate's cash-strapped financier husband, Dexter, stands to make--or lose--a fortune on the announcement. Feelings of domestic betrayal simmer, and the focus on Kate's role as family caretaker conflicting with her job as a spy offers an excellent hook that elevates this novel above the standard catch-the-bad-guy fray. VERDICT Pavone gives us a fresh, pulsating, and introspective thriller that delivers on its tourist-heavy Parisian setting and expands and connects territory from his previous novels. An ensemble cast with alternating points of view enhances the wheels-within-wheels plot and are sure to please fans of Daniel Silva or Stella Rimington. Absolutely not to be missed. [See Prepub Alert, 11/12/18.]--Gregg Winsor, Johnson Cty. Lib., Overland Park, KS
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Back from The Expats, Pavone's Edgar and Anthony Award winner for Best First Novel, former CIA operative Kate Moore is enjoying life in Paris with husband Dexter when a suicide bomber materializes outside the Louvre. Of course, she jumps into the fray with a French agent.
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"It is a dangerous time to be alive." Indeed, as this fast-paced thriller by seasoned mysterian Pavone (The Travelers, 2016, etc.) proves.A siren wails in Paris, a once-rare sound often heard in these times of terror. It's gone off because a jihadi has strapped a bomb to himself and is standing in front of the Louvre, "in the epicenter of Western civilization," waiting for his moment. But is he a jihadi? Who's put him up to this dastardly deed, and why? That's for Kate Moore, deep-cover CIA agent, "sidewalk-swimming in a sea of expat moms," to suss out. Kate lives in a shadow world, so hidden away that even her hedge-fund-master husband doesn't have a clue about what she does: "Dexter has been forced to accept that she's entitled to her secrets," Pavone writes, adding, "He's had plenty of his own." Indeed, and in the shadowy parallel world of speculative finance, he's teamed up with a fast-living entrepreneur who wants nothing more than to become superrich and run off with his "assistant-concubine." Hunter Forsyth is about to announce a huge deal, but suddenly he's disappeared, whisked away by shadowy people who, by the thin strings of suspense, have something to do with that bomb across town. So does a vengeful young mom, strapped to a useless husband and bent on payback for a long-ago slight. All this is red meat to Kate, who's tired of the domestic life, no matter how much a sham, and is happier than a clam when "running her network of journalists, bloggers, influencers, as well as drug dealers, thieves, prostitutes, and cops, plus diplomats and soldiers, maitre d's and concierges and bartenders and shopkeepers." With all those players, mercenaries, and assorted bad guys thrown into the mix, you just know that the storyline is going to be knotty, and it resolves in a messy spatter of violence that's trademark Pavone and decidedly not for the squeamish.A satisfying puzzler, one to shelve alongside le Carr�, Forsyth, and other masters of foreign intrigue.COPYRIGHT(2019) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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“The Paris Diversion is the best espionage novel I’ve read this year. Smart, sophisticated and suspenseful, this is Pavone’s finest novel to date—and that’s saying something.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fool Me Once
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