Review: Paris in the Dark

Paris in the Dark by Robert Olen Butler
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Kit Cobb (Christopher Marlowe Cobb) returns for a 4th outing in Robert Olen Butler’s novel set in Paris in 1915. Kit is an American journalist in Paris to seemingly write about the American volunteer ambulance drivers. He also carries out various assignments for American intelligence. The German army starts to advance into France and the French Authorities believe a saboteur has entered the city amongst the German refugees. They have been carrying out bombings, which the French worry will destroy the morale of the people and Kit is tasked with infiltrating group of German refugee men to find the bomber. Kit finds the suspect, but realises there are other possibilities elsewhere.

Robert Olen Butler provides a very realistic and atmospheric Paris of the period and smoothly, builds the tension to the final showdown in the Paris catacombs. Great historical fiction and I loved it.


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