Resistance Man Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
1780870728 | Format: PDF
Resistance Man Description
- Paperback
- Publisher: Quercus Export Editions
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1780870728
- ISBN-13: 978-1780870724
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
This is the sixth and latest of Martin Walker's "Bruno" novels and, like its predecessors, a great read--well written, cleverly plotted and hugely addictive. While I think it's always a good idea to read series novels--especially mystery series novels--in chronological order, I think these tend to stand up better than most others as stand-alones.
So, first, a bit of back story for newbies: Benoit Courreges, known to all as Bruno, grew up in an orphanage, fought in Bosnia, found then lost his true love to that war, then went on to become the one-man police force of St. Denis, a small town in the Dordogne region of France that rightfully adores him and considers him "family." He's also a culinary whiz and oenophile. At the beginning of this series he meets and finds love again with Isabelle, a smart and ambitious French detective who loves him back. But, unfortunately, she's as allergic to small town life as he is to big cities and as uninterested in having children as he is deeply in need of them. No way that relationship is ever gonna have a happily ever after, yet her job keeps sending her back to St. Denis and Bruno. But that may be about to end.
So, on to book 6, which begins with the death of one of the town's few remaining WWII Resistance veterans, who's found clutching a 1940s Vichy banknote in his hands, which may be connected to a famous unsolved long-ago train robbery. On the same day comes reports of a rash of burglaries of furniture, paintings and other valuable collectibles from several houses owned by wealthy foreigners who spend their summers in this part of France. Then comes word of an Englishman found murdered in a nearby gite (a cheaply restored farmhouse turned holiday rental). Are any or all of these things connected?
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