The Cafe Girl
A slow-burn suspense novel with a shocking conclusion...
It is 1941 and the Nazis occupy Paris with an iron fist.
Corrupt policeman Damien Giraud profits from the black market but finds himself obsessed with a café waitress who may be in the resistance.
Forced to kill to protect her and under assail from his checkered past, Giraud scrambles to raise enough money to flee France and take Isabelle with him.
But nothing is quite as it seems. On the run from the Nazis and a city that resents his greed, Giraud finds himself accused of a heinous crime and aiding the resistance.
He has one more surprise in store: the identity of the man who will determine his fate.
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Ian Loome
Ian Loome (also writes as L. H. Thomson and Sam Powers) writes the kind of thrillers that feel like they've lived a life before landing in your hands — taut, restless, and always edged with hard-won experience. Raised between the quiet English village of Bierton and the turbulence of Angola during a communist regime, and later settling in Canada, Loome grew up in places where tension thrived under the surface. That early exposure to conflict and uncertainty shaped the pulse of his fiction, infusing every story with a sense of urgency and grit.
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