The Paris Agent by Kelly Rimmer

 

Publisher: Graydon Houe

On Sale Date: July 11 2023

Pages: 368

I reviewed a digital review copy from the publisher

The Paris Agent is a book set in 1970 and the 1940's, in the UK and France, during WWII.  In 1970's Liverpool, Noah Ainsworth is a man who was a British operative in France during the war. During his last mission there, he got severerly wounded with a head injury that left him with memory gaps, and not knowing who saved him then. His daughter Charlotte is starting a search for answers for her father; she finds the stories of Chloe and Fleur, who during the war, where spies for the resistance, but there is also a double agent from the war who lives close to them, and a lot of secrets and shocking stories from the war are unveiled.

The Paris Agent is a moving book. It has a lot of main characters that switch in every chapter, which takes a bit of finding out who is who in relation to who. I found the overall story starting well, but during the parts that take place during the war, the story sands a bit in a very technical resistance story, in which it is at many points what the resistance agents and spies are doing exactly and for which specific case.  I truly missed some background information during these parts.  I found the ending okay, but the story has some flaws that makes it sometimes uninteresting for the reader, and this was a bit of a dissapointment. 

Overall I found this a book about and important topic, but the story was further on the story missed out on certain points.