I love the Aimee Leduc series, and the first book in this series with American sharpshooter, Kate Rees. I was disappointed in this book, as there was too much thrown in to make it very unbelievable. Kate’s husband and daughter were killed by Nazi bombings, so she joined the British to fight Nazis. Her orders were to kill as a sharpshooter, but the convoluted story line included way too many twists and deceptions. It was hard to follow as she searched for Margo, at the same time planning to kill a Nazi that would uncover plans for a plot against Hitler. I would read another in the series, as there was a cliffhanger, but would hope for a less harried, complicated story. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

From page one it was like there was never even an intermission between the first book in the series, Three Hours in Paris, to this newest release. Once again Black delivered a heart pumping, action packed thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Even if readers aren't familiar with the main character Kate Rees, Black surreptitiously interspersed enough backstory for readers to not be lost in understanding Kate's actions. This story had multiple layers of deceit and at times my head swam from attempting to keep up with who was backstabbing who. Kate had to consistently follow the mantra RADA: read, assess, decide, act. With so many players there was an overlapping of missions that Kate had to weave her way through without knowing any of the facts. This was such a fast paced read that I'm sure I missed snippets of information along the way. Regardless I thoroughly enjoyed the continuing adventures of Kate and hope that Black continues the series. It has been a refreshing way to see some of the untold story of World War II.

I received a copy of this title via NetGalley.

This is a difficult to put down novel with just enough historical detail. I didn't read the first book in this series and I didn't need to. I liked the heroine and understood her motives.

I'm not going to give this book a low rating or a bad review. I will say that I was so lost in places that I finally gave up finishing it. I don't know if it's just me or the fact that I didn't read the first book, didn't even know there was one, or if it was just not what I wanted to read now. Either way it was just not for me. I may come back to it in the future and if I do I will come back and revise my review.

Thank you NetGalley and SoHo press for this ARC. It was just not for me.

The second novel from Cara Black featuring WWII sniper/assassin Kate Rees is just as nail-bitingly difficult to put down as the first book. Kate is getting her mojo back in Scotland, training recruits, when she’s whisked to London to renew her spycraft skills and to get a new assignment. She’s given specific instructions, but little information. She’s to be sent to Paris with some penicillin, kill a target, extract an operative and return – within two days. Black gives the reader the full treatment on every step of Kate’s journey, so you are with her on the bumpy flight to Paris, the landing in a field, and her exhaustion as the finds her way to the city to begin her mission.

The book is full of twists, and Kate is never sure who she can trust. Things go wrong, her informers are not who she imagined they would be, and her extraction target is difficult to locate. She feels she owes the woman her life and is on this mission mostly because she feels she owes her this debt. As Kate is figuring out how to deliver the penicillin as well as the best way to take out her target – a high up Nazi official – Black also weavers in bits of Kate’s backstory.

She’d grown up on a farm with brothers, learning to shoot early. When she meets and marries her husband, only to lose him and her baby to a Nazi bomb, her mission to find and kill as many Nazis as she can is cemented. In this novel, it’s also tested, as she’s pushed to the limit of her ingenuity, courage, and energy. She makes up for lack of sleep by popping a Dexedrine every so often.

Never the less, she fulfills her mission, only to be left behind on the airstrip and told to report to a new mission in Cairo. The difference between Cairo and occupied Paris is striking – mostly because of the attitudes. In Paris, there’s resignation, as well as an underground resistance. In Cairo, the dread of Rommel and his troops swooping in to take the city is ever present, though the city seems to have a more languid air in general, perhaps because of the heat.

Kate is assigned a new target and when she’s dropped off, she’s reminded she’s expendable. This book is filled with beautifully written action set pieces, and the ones in Cairo are especially well done and original. I have read many, many books about WWII, but Black manages to make her subject fresh, and to give the reader a new take on the war by using a different point of view.

Kate also struggles throughout with double end even triple agents, making it very difficult to know who to trust. Her training has told her to trust no one and that seems to be her modus operandi though she obviously has to trust different people throughout the book. The spycraft details are also quite interesting, tiny things I’d never heard of. It makes the book both more specific and more memorable. This was a great read, impossible to put down.

This is the second installment to Cara Black's new series about WWII assassin Kate Rees. Kate is an American born and raised on a farm in Oregon where she acquires her shooting skills. Her personal life takes her to the UK where she marries and has a child. When her husband and baby are killed in a Nazi bombing raid she is recruited by the British Secret Service as a sharpshooter assassin. This time her risky, complex mission requires her to deliver important medical materials, assassinate a German military officer and rescue an agent who is her friend. Nothing is simple of course and the story is non-stop twists and turns expertly told. I couldn't put in down and I am eagerly awaiting the next one in this intriguing series.

Mixed feelings on this title. I quickly didn’t care what “PA”
Was thinking-that device got old fast. A lot of repetition and unbelievable situations. There were a lot of adrenaline moments which were entertaining but overall not up to Cara Black’s usual standards.

I enjoyed Cara Black's first Kate Rees novel and was interested to read a second. Kate has become a trainer for the British Secret Service but now they want her to go on another mission. There is a lot of action and intrigue,
People aren't what they seem, mysterious motives and double agents abound. Will Kate survive the duplicitous spy world once agian?
This is a review of an eGalley provided by NetGalley.\

Cara Black has figured out a way to make me believe she's finally figured a way to keep me believing she's a chameleon in WWII. I'm trying to keep all of her people straight in figuring out who was a double and triple agent. It's interesting how she complies with each of the people in her interactions and then gets the double or triple agent wiped out. It's a never ending story with each and every body completely blown away in the story. I liked this as a 4 star read.