The Paris Diversion

A man with a suicide vest filled with radioactive material stands in front of the Louvre, threatening to detonate it, but this is only the beginning of a complicated plot to steal big money and exact revenge. The story unspools over just a few hours, and you won’t stop reading until the final devastating pages.

Sleek, cunning and breakneck... with as rich and complicated a hero as you could hope for — it keeps you returning for more and more. A knockout.

A 100 mph thriller that all takes place within twelve hours.

Thriller writing at its absolute best. With echoes of Graham Greene and John le Carré, Pavone’s novel accomplishes that rare feat of being both a nonstop adventure ride and a smart, stylish and compelling meditation on family, courage, responsibilities, and the relationships we create, for good and bad, throughout our lives. The Paris Diversion does far more than divert; it grips us from the very beginning and doesn’t let go.

A deliciously twisty thriller...This involving work has been skillfully engineered for maximum reader enjoyment.

[A] sizzling thriller... the novel’s carefully layered plot takes readers from the offices of a multinational company, where a master of industry is planning a dicey corporate merger, to a filthy alley where one hired killer confronts another. But at the heart of the novel is the domestic drama playing out between Kate and Dexter.