Lewis Cane fought with the French Resistance during the Second World War and gained a justified reputation as a tough and resourceful man. So it's no great surprise when one of his ex-Resistance comrades, now a successful lawyer in the early 1960s in Paris employs him to escort a businessman from Brittany to Liechtenstein for a crucial meeting.
There are just two problems: the man's associates don't want him to get there, and the police have a warrant out for the man's arrest on a charge of rape. For Cane, it becomes a desperate race across France, fighting against resourceful and ruthless adversaries and avoiding the forces of law and order every step of the way ...
- ISBN10 1471917673
- ISBN13 9781471917677
- Publish Date 14 January 2015 (first published June 1967)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Murder Room
- Edition Digital original
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 304
- Language English