The Paris diversion : a novel

Title:

Author:

Pavone, Chris, author.

Personal Author:

Pavone, Chris, author.

ISBN:

9781524761509

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Kate Moore ; 2

Kate Moore ; 2.

General Note:

Sequel to: The expats.

Abstract:

"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. 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. And on the nearby rue de Rivoli, Mahmoud Khalid climbs out of a van, elbows his way into the museum courtyard, sets down his metal briefcase, and removes his windbreaker. Mahmoud is planning to die today...and he won't be the only one."--Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Bomb threats -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Paris (France) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Spy stories.

Suspense fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

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Summary

"The most clever plot twist of the year."-- Washington Post

"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 (1)

Kirkus Review

"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 Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.