Night Flight to Paris by Cara Black
The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear
The Lost Americans by Christopher Bollen
Now that the war in Ukraine has moved into its second year, we can likely look forward to a flood of thrillers on that subject. Meanwhile, here are three books that deal with different aspects of war: the clandestine side, embodied by two World War II operatives who happen to be women, and the arms business, which takes a human toll as it manufactures the machinery of death.
It’s a striking coincidence that Cara Black and Jacqueline Winspear, creators of the long-running Aimée Leduc and Maisie Dobbs series, have conceived new heroines with the same unusual job description: trained killers during W.W. II.
