The French Illusion
A honeymoon in Paris takes a dangerous turn in this new high-stakes thriller.
About the Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers a gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong—and the nightmare that follows.
After Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.
Propulsive and surprising, The French Illusion is an unmistakable Grisham thrill ride—gripping and impossible to put down.
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Chapter 1
The surveillance began on the third day of the honeymoon, though the bride and groom had no possible way of knowing it. And why should they have known or even been suspicious? So far in their short happy lives they had committed no felonies, breached no contracts, sued no one or been sued, joined no subversive groups, offended no foreign governments, defamed not a soul, listened to their parents when it mattered, and for the past two years had been thoroughly faithful to one another in every conceivable way. They came from nice families who’d given them proper educations. Who in the world could they have possibly angered or provoked?
A mole inside their trendy Left Bank hotel served them up, and for his treachery he would soon receive an envelope stuffed with enough euros to equal a year’s wages. He spent most of his spare time watching the endless wave of tourists attracted to the City of Light. On any given week, at least half of the eighty rooms in the hotel where he worked were booked by Americans, many of them just married. He monitored other hotels as well.
Once their names were in play, it took less than...
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