My book was inspired by the French resistance to Nazi Occupation and European fascism during WWII. Sorry to blatantly self-promote but traditionally on MIE we're allowed to tell you ALL on our book's birthday. Please stop by and note that today Sujata and I will be chatting on Facebook at CaraBlackauthor. Here is the virtual book tour we came up with starting today. Yes, her struggle and survival is hopeful because it’s about persisting and doing what you feel is the right thing. That it will pass but in so doing there’s a toll taken. She knows the world wasn’t always like this. Kate to me is an everywoman - a daughter, a sister, a mother, a wife - who finding herself against the circumstances of war and tragedy, struggles and persists and doesn’t let up. Not all of us would or could fight back Kate’s way but every act of resistance is Resistance. Fighting back can be interpreted in everyday ways speaking out, questioning and making your voices heard ie #metoo.

Yet, given a situation like the one Kate Rees, my prototgonist, finds her self in choosing to fight back in a way she can, lends itself to today. We’re living in a time when so much going on echoes the past. *Features an illustrated map of 1940s Paris as full color endpapers.On one level it’s a story about resistance and the fight against fascism. New York Times bestselling author Cara Black is at her best as she brings Occupation-era France to vivid life in this masterful, pulse-pounding story about one young woman with the temerity-and drive-to take on Hitler himself.

When Kate misses her mark and the plan unravels, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. 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. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. 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.

Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment: assassinate the Führer. In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light-abruptly leaving, never to return.

Three hours in paris