Chris Pavone Books

From Edgar Award-winning Chris Pavone, author of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller The Expats, comes a riveting time-bomb of a thriller (fans of The Expats will be excited to see a few characters from Pavone's first book pop up here as well).

A woman wakes up to discover her new husband is missing and sets out on a wild race of power, politics, and revenge.

As dawn approaches in New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of a mysterious, anonymous manuscript, racing through the explosive revelations about powerful people, as well as long-hidden secrets of her own past.

"An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems"-- Provided by publisher.

After the events of The Expats, Kate Moore and her husband Dexter have settled into a new life in Paris--playing tennis in the Jardins du Luxembourg and sipping coffee over Le Monde at the Cafe de Flore. The last thing she expects when she hears sirens while dropping her kids off at school is for her entire life to be turned upside down. With a suicide bomber outside the Louvre, a tech CEO and old nemesis of Dexter's missing, and no orders coming from Langley, Kate must partner with a French agent to figure out who is orchestrating the attack. Minute by minute, she comes closer to the truth--that the past she hoped she left behind might be closer than she thinks. And if she can't stop the shadowy figure behind it all, Paris may never be the same. Sophisticated plotting, psychologically nuanced characterization, and an unbeatable Paris setting make this the next bestseller from Chris Pavone.

When a woman with whom he has shared a harmless flirtation shows up at his hotel door with a gun, travel writer and food expert Will Rhodes discovers the real reason his job occasionally requires him to assume different names and deliver mysterious parcels.

Die zentrale Frage des Buches dreht sich um die moralischen Grenzen und Entscheidungen in extremen Situationen. Die Protagonisten sehen sich mit herausfordernden Umständen konfrontiert, die sie zwingen, über ihre Werte und Loyalitäten nachzudenken. Ihre Entscheidungen haben weitreichende Konsequenzen, die nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben, sondern auch das Schicksal anderer beeinflussen. Das Werk thematisiert Mut, Opferbereitschaft und die Suche nach dem richtigen Weg in einer Welt voller Unsicherheiten.

Een ex-CIA-agente heeft haar verleden verzwegen voor haar man, die ze samen met hun twee kinderen is gevolgd naar Luxemburg, waar hij als IT-er werkt voor een bank tenminste, dat denkt zij.