![]() ![]() I enjoyed this novel’s suspense, and I also liked the author’s smooth writing, fast-paced action, and description of Paris during World War II. As for Bernard’s mistress, she’s sleeping with a sadistic Nazi. Bernard’s drab wife doesn’t want Bernard collaborating with the Nazis or, worse, helping Jews. Bernard keeps insisting that each hiding place is the last, but he saves lives despite himself. ![]() ![]() This industrialist will ensure that Bernard gets jobs designing munitions factories and such, collaborating with the Germans, but only if he will design the hiding places. Ironically, Bernard is on his way to a meeting with a wealthy and daring businessman who bribes Bernard into devising hiding places for Jews. Some blood has splattered on Bernard’s suit, which the SS officer admires for its cut. We meet the hero/antihero of this novel, architect Lucien Bernard, as he nervously jokes with Nazi soldiers who just murdered a Jewish man on the rue la Boétie. In 1942 Paris, the good guys are not all that good. ![]()
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