Theo Cazalle has come back from the dead: in reality, from a 'good war' spent fighting with the Free French against the Vichy regime. Unannounced, he arrives at the farm of Bonnemort, eager for a reunion with his wife. And discovers, instead, that his wife has been denounced as a collaborator, the lover of an SS officer. The same officer who was found naked, his throat cut, in front of Colonel Cazalle's house. But Cazalle is a civilized man: he decides to seek the truth about the death of the German, the humiliation of ...
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Theo Cazalle has come back from the dead: in reality, from a 'good war' spent fighting with the Free French against the Vichy regime. Unannounced, he arrives at the farm of Bonnemort, eager for a reunion with his wife. And discovers, instead, that his wife has been denounced as a collaborator, the lover of an SS officer. The same officer who was found naked, his throat cut, in front of Colonel Cazalle's house. But Cazalle is a civilized man: he decides to seek the truth about the death of the German, the humiliation of his wife, the devastation of his tiny rural community. Was Ariane Cazalle a traitor - or the bravest of heroines As Theo Cazalle picks his way through contradictory stories of how their victims were betrayed to the Germans, he comes ever closer to the truth about the dead man.
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Very good. VGC. New English Library/Hodder & Stoughton, 2000. First Paperback edition(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Paperback(a couple of small creases and nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC. Nice and clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges, a couple of small creases on the edges of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first page of the book. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.343pp. A collectable scarce book. This is another paragraph Product Description: Theo Cazelle returns to his home after fighting Nazis to discover his wife is a collaborator and the lover of an SS officer who is found with his throat slit outside the Cazelle home. A series of other deaths seem suspicious and Theo picks his way through the cases to find out the truth.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
You wont find a writer better able to involve you in an unusual plot with plausible characters, well turned dialogue and a twist at the end than Elizabeth Ironside. I haven't found a bad story yet.
