By Gavin Lyall
Lewis Cane fought with the French Resistance through the moment global warfare and won a justified recognition as a tricky and ingenious guy. So it is no nice shock while one in all his ex-Resistance comrades, now a profitable attorney within the early Nineteen Sixties in Paris employs him to escort a businessman from Brittany to Liechtenstein for a vital assembly. There are only difficulties: the man's affiliates don't desire him to get there, and the police have a warrant out for the man's arrest on a cost of rape. For Cane, it turns into a determined race throughout France, scuffling with opposed to ingenious and ruthless adversaries and keeping off the forces of legislations and order each step of ways ...
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Harvey and I glanced at each other. He smiled briefly and went on leaving the work to me. 'Look, Mr Maganhard,' I said carefully. 'This would have saved you money. Say you'd given me the job of going to see this woman a month ago. If I thought she'd been bought, I'd have bought her back for a few thousand more. The whole cost - hers and mine - would be about a quarter of what you're paying for this trip. And no risk. ' 'Nobody is strictly a businessman, Mr Cane. One must take the moral question.
God, I only have to be right the whole time,' I snapped. ' Harvey smiled his twisted smile. ' I glared at him, but soon my jumpiness passed. A few kilometres out of Dinadan we passed through thick pine woods, fresh logs stacked by the roadside like huge peeled asparagus. Then the road climbed in wriggles towards the final rim of the central plateau before the drop to the Rhône. The farms died out as the country got steeper. The hilltops turned into bare grey rock, the slopes into rock slides stitched in place by a few bushes or tough grass.
If what you say is true. ' Harvey lit a Gitane and said thoughtfully: 'It's the way cops think. They don't really mind somebody breaking the law - not personally. They get to expect it. Sure, they work at their jobs, but they go home for dinner at six. They don't think the world's going to end just because some guy gives his wife a face-lift with a meat axe. ' He blew smoke at the windscreen. 'Cops don't mind people running away like we're doing. They expect that, too - they rather like it. It shows respect.