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The Norwegian Assassin
Paperback
Series: The Resistance Girl, Book 4
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9789083215624
Publisher: Hannah Byron Books
Published: Feb 8 2022
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A World War II historical fiction novel set in Nazi-occupied Norway, The Norwegian Assassin follows a Jewish woman driven into resistance, espionage, and targeted sabotage after the destruction of her family. Written for readers of Kristin Hannah, Pam Jenoff, and Martha Hall Kelly who seek emotionally intense wartime fiction with fierce female protagonists and real historical stakes.
Vienna, 1938. Esther Weiss's life once unfolded with certainty: a future shaped by love, family, and a long-planned wedding. When Austria falls to Nazi rule, everything fractures. Forced to flee with her family, she seeks refuge in Norway, hoping distance might offer safety.
It does not.
After returning home one evening to find her family gone, deported without warning, grief hardens into resolve. Esther chooses resistance. Assuming a false identity, she learns to weaponise her appearance and her silence, slipping into fascist circles to gather intelligence, sabotage operations, and strike back at those who enabled the terror.
In occupied Norway's forests and cities, she becomes a shadow: courier, spy, assassin. Yet vengeance extracts its own toll. As the mission consumes her, even Tore Ringdal, the Resistance fighter sworn to protect her, struggles to reach the woman behind the hardened resolve.
What remains is a reckoning between justice and survival, love and loss, and the cost of fighting when there is nothing left to lose.
Before the war brought her to Norway, Esther shared her formative years at Le Manoir, a Swiss finishing school, with Lili Hamilton and Océane Bell - a friendship that quietly binds the fates of three women across three very different wars.
A standalone novel within The Resistance Girl Series, The Norwegian Assassin blends women's historical fiction, Holocaust-era resistance, espionage, and psychological intensity set against the stark landscapes of wartime Norway. Ideal for readers drawn to stories of moral reckoning, resilience, and the limits of vengeance under occupation.
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