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The Paris Diversion
By (Author) Chris Pavone
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
28th April 2020
2nd April 2020
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
576
Width 120mm, Height 195mm, Spine 20mm
258g
'Sleek, cunning and breakneck . . . A knockout.' Megan Abbott
'A fast-paced and heartfelt thriller . . . that echoes the best of John le Carre.' Daily Mail
'You won't stop reading until the final devastating pages.' Stephen King
Kate Moore - a mother with an interesting past - is living the quiet life in another European city, or trying to. On her way to drop her children off at school in the city centre, the cafes and streets of Paris start to come alive around her. Kate's husband Dex, meanwhile, charged with finding a particular present for their son's birthday, is struggling to focus on the job in hand as a financial matter at work seems to be playing on his mind. As worrying reports begin to circulate from key locations around the city, and the sound of wailing sirens becomes increasingly hard to ignore, could their day and, indeed, their lives be about to change forever
Chris Pavone grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Cornell, and was an editor at book-publishing houses in New York for fifteen years. His 2012 debut, The Expats, described by the Sunday Times as 'a captivating, sophisticated thriller' won both the Edgar and Anthony Awards for best first novel and was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was followed in 2014 by the New York Times bestseller, The Accident and his his most recent novel, The Travelers, was The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month.