The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

Legendary clothier Coco Chanel is revered for her refined type—the enduring little black costume—and famed for her intoxicating fragrance Chanel No. 5. But behind the general public persona is an advanced lady of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the brand new novel from award-winning writer Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden lifetime of Chanel throughout the 4 years of Nazi occupation in Paris within the midst of WWII—as found in just lately unearthed wartime information.

Coco Chanel may very well be cheerful, lighthearted, and beneficiant; she additionally may very well be ruthless, manipulative, even merciless. Towards the winds of conflict, with the Wehrmacht marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself residing alongside the Reich’s Excessive Command within the Lodge Ritz. Surrounded by the enemy, Chanel wages a personal conflict of her personal to wrestle full management of her fragrance firm from the fingers of her Jewish enterprise associate, Pierre Wertheimer. With anti-Semitism on the rise, he has escaped to the US with the confidential method for Chanel No. 5. Distrustful of his intentions to arrange manufacturing on the outskirts of New York Metropolis, Chanel fights to grab possession. The Home of Chanel shall not fall.

Whereas Chanel struggles to maintain her livelihood intact, Paris sinks beneath the iron fist of German rule. Chanel—a lady manufactured from glowing granite—will do something to outlive. She is going to even conform to collaborate with the Nazis with a view to defend her darkest secrets and techniques. When she is covertly recruited by Germany to spy for the Reich, she turns into Agent F-7124, code title: Westminster. However why? And to what lengths will she go to maintain her stormy previous from haunting her future?