In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Lightโabruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why.TheNew York Timesbestselling author of the Aimรฉe Leduc investigations reimagines history in her masterful, pulse-pounding spy thriller,Three Hours in Paris.Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Fรผhrer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural Oregon finds herself holding the fate of the world in her hands. When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her lifeโall the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up.Cara Black,doyenneof the Parisian crime novel, is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this gripping story about one young woman with the temerityโand driveโto take on Hitler himself.