The black swan of Paris / Karen Robards.
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TextPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 473 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529338171; 9781529338218; 1529338212Subject(s): Government resistance -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction | Antiquities -- Fiction | Government, Resistance to -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction | Assassins -- Fiction | Entertainers -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | France -- Fiction | France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | War fiction. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve is shaken. She knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked with silencing her by any means necessary including assassination.But Genevieve refuses to let her mother become yet one more victim of the war. Reuniting with her long-lost sister, she must find a way to navigate the perilous cross-currents of Occupied France undetected and in time to save Lillian's life.
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"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected..."--Cover.
Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve is shaken. She knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked with silencing her by any means necessary including assassination.But Genevieve refuses to let her mother become yet one more victim of the war. Reuniting with her long-lost sister, she must find a way to navigate the perilous cross-currents of Occupied France undetected and in time to save Lillian's life.
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