New York Times Bestseller
The bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an
unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes
history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student
Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young
son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a
different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must
forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper--a lethal hunter of
Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes
her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody
battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill
tour.
Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself
isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC--until an
unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more
unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility
of happiness.
But when an old enemy from Mila's past joins forces with a deadly new
foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own
demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism
born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who
found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.
