I had heard of the Night Witches before, but knew very little about them and I’ve always been interested in the men and women who hunted down Nazis on the run after the end of the war. The book moves effortlessly backwards and forwards in time, between the points of view of Jordan McBride, a young woman in post-war American who dreams of being a photographer Nina Markova, a reckless pilot from Siberia who join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female squadron of bombers who fly at night, undetectable by radar in their flimsy wooden planes, and wreak havoc on Hitler’s armies and war-weary British journalist Ian Graham who has become a Nazi hunter with one particular target always in his sights: the Huntress, a cold-blooded German woman who murdered his brother. Her New York Times bestselling novel, The Alice Network, was one of my favourite books last year and I grabbed The Huntress the second I saw it. Some authors are must-buys, and Kate Quinn is now one of these for me. But Jordan’s search for the truth may threaten all she holds dear. Armed only with her camera and her wits, Jordan delves into her new stepmother’s past and slowly realizes there are mysteries buried deep in her family. At first delighted when her long-widowed father brings home a fiancée, Jordan grows increasingly disquieted by the soft-spoken German widow who seems to be hiding something. Seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride grows up in post WWII Boston, determined despite family opposition to become a photographer.

But a shared secret could derail their mission, unless Ian and Nina force themselves to confront it. Fierce, disciplined Ian must join forces with brazen, cocksure Nina, the only witness to escape the Huntress alive. He abandons journalism after the war to become a Nazi hunter, yet one target eludes him: the Huntress. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive.īritish war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials.

When the tide of war sweeps over her homeland, she gambles everything to join the infamous Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on Hitler’s eastern front. In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold, reckless Nina Markova grows up on the icy edge of Soviet Russia, dreaming of flight and fearing nothing. From 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.

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