Jordan’s father rose from the end of the little dock and tugged his fishing line free. You did, when you were the only daughter of a widowed father who took you fishing on fine spring weekends instead of the son he didn’t have. She’d heard all his curse words before, of course. She laughed as her father said three or four words he then told her to forget. Jordan’s camera went click as his face settled into comic dismay. Jordan McBride had timed the question perfectly: her father jerked in surprise midcast, sending his fishing line flying not into the lake, but into the branch of the overhanging maple. In this immersive, heart-wrenching story, Kate Quinn illuminates the consequences of war on individual lives, and the price we pay to seek justice and truth. secrets that may threaten all Jordan holds dear. Certain that danger is lurking, Jordan begins to delve into her new stepmother’s past-only to discover that there are mysteries buried deep in her family. But there is something disconcerting about the soft-spoken German widow. When her long-widowed father unexpectedly comes homes with a new fiancée, Jordan is thrilled. Growing up in post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is determined to become a photographer.
But a shared secret could derail their mission unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. To find her, the fierce, disciplined investigator joins forces with the only witness to escape the Huntress alive: the brazen, cocksure Nina. Yet one target eludes him: a vicious predator known as the Huntress.
Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. “ If you enjoyed “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” read “The Huntress,” by Kate Quinn." The Washington Postįrom the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. Named one of best books of the year by Marie Claire and Bookbub ".compulsively readable historical fiction… powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity.” - Kristin Hannah, The Washington Post
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