Inspector Lafarge 03 The Compromised Detective

✍ Scribed by Pirate Irwin

• Book ID: 112124675
• Publisher: Sharpe Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07BHV7M9H

✦ Synopsis

It’s August 1944 and the people of France are celebrating liberation from Nazi occupation – but a nasty hangover remains.

French men and women faced a stark choice in those dark days: to resist or to collaborate. Some, like Chief Inspector Gaston Lafarge, tried to keep a foot in both camps.

Lafarge, as a significant cog in the Vichy regime which worked with its German masters, believed he could still go about his business of investigating ordinary crime while his bosses plotted crimes that would stain the history of the proud country for decades to come – and also plot their downfall.

After committing a series of murders Lafarge attempts to flee the country in search of a new life with his Argentine wife and two children, but his bid ends with the sinking of their ship.

He is rescued and returns alone to Paris where he is permitted to resume his police duties at a time when the Free French leader General de Gaulle is returning from exile in London to take control of the country.

But reluctantly backed by the Americans, who give in to Winston Churchill’s persuasive powers, de Gaulle faces a new enemy from within – a right-wing group of pro-monarchists led by one Colonel Antoine de Cambedessus who long to restore the monarchy in the shape of Henri d’Orleans, the Comte de Paris, and descended from Louis-Philippe King of France from 1830-48.

Incredibly, Lafarge takes de Cambedessus’ wife Berenice as his lover – so their paths are already on a collision course ...