RGC: Can you speak about your interest in people leading dual lives, or creating new lives from turbulent pasts? How do you create sympathy for characters like Anna who have done horrible deeds? So when I realized she would be right at home in The Huntress, I scooped her from one book and dropped her into the next-and I didn’t need to figure out her voice, because I already knew it very well from writing her old story years before! The novel was ghastly, a thriller that did not thrill in any way whatsoever and was otherwise consigned to the under-the-bed grave of my other unpublishables…but Jordan was a character I loved, and I always thought she deserved a better book. But that’s because she is actually the heroine of a much earlier novel of mine which was never published. Kate Quinn: Technically, Jordan’s-my youngest heroine, the teenaged photographer in Boston. Reading Group Choices: Which voice was the first to appear? Delving into her new stepmother's past, Jordan slowly realizes that a Nazi killer may be hiding in plain sight.Shining a light on a shadowy corner of history, The Huntress is an epic, sweeping Second World War novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network.The historical novel The Huntress by Kate Quinn tracks the intersecting lives of an English journalist, a Russian bomber pilot, and a Nazi war criminal living a secret life in Boston.įor her interview with Reading Group Choices, Kate Quinn spoke about her research process, women in the military, creating vivid landscapes, and the fascinating true stories that she just had to include in the book.
But Jordan grows increasingly disquieted by the soft-spoken German widow who seems to be hiding something. Fierce, disciplined Ian must join forces with reckless, cocksure Nina, the only witness to escape the Huntress alive.In post-war Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride is delighted when her long-widowed father brings home a fiancée.
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.British war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremburg Trials. On the icy edge of Soviet Russia, bold and reckless Nina Markova joins the infamous Night Witches – an all-female bomber regiment – wreaking havoc on Hitler's eastern front.
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