Animals of the French Species (en Inglés) - Michelle Richmond

“Michelle Richmond is, simply put, a great storyteller.”—Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of Served Him Right

How far would you go to keep the promises you make?

New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond brings FBI agent Lina Connerly to Paris in this exhilarating novel of espionage and expatriate life—at once a white-knuckle thriller and a moving story of a mother and son rebuilding their lives abroad

Still grieving the death of her husband Fred two years earlier, FBI agent Lina Connerly welcomes the chance to relocate to Paris with her teenage son Rory. Officially, she’s posted to the American Embassy to liaise between U.S. and French counterintelligence. Unofficially, she’s also tasked with hunting down Calvin Cook—a fugitive American intelligence officer who leaked classified documents, fled to Russia, and is now rumoured to be somewhere in France.

Rory and Lina are still exploring their new life in Paris—Rory’s new school, the wonderful crêpes near their Haussmann apartment, the inexplicably bad pastries at the embassy cafeteria—when her French counterparts pull her into a case they cannot crack: the mystery of the Train Fantôme. Twenty years ago, nine passengers were found dead in a single metro car, with no clear cause of death. Now, construction workers have recovered a mysterious device from behind a tunnel wall, and an old source of Lina’s has resurfaced with intel connecting it to a secret weapons program. What if the threat didn’t end with the lives of those nine passengers?

Meanwhile, a celebrated American chef gives Lina her first real lead on Cook—and, for the first time since Fred’s death, the possibility of romance. But then people Lina recruited—assets she swore to protect—start turning up dead. The fugitive she’s hunting is burning their identities one by one. With the Train Fantôme still unsolved, a summit of world leaders just days away, and no backup from Washington, Lina is left alone to decide exactly how far she is willing to go to honor the promises she has made.