In the wake of World War II, a Frenchwoman learns to live for
vengeance In Geneva, a frail young woman sits down in a cafe. On
her arm is a tattooed number-a souvenir from her time in
Bergen-Belsen. As far as the French government is concerned, she is
a dead woman, a casualty of the concentration camps. But after a
narrow escape, Lily de St-Germain is back, and ready to take
revenge on everyone who buried her. When the war started, Lily fled
the countryside for Paris, hoping to convince her husband to
abandon his work at the Louvre and help get their children to
safety in England. There she found him in the arms of her sister, a
betrayal that pushed her into the ranks of the Resistance-that
fearful band of partisans who taught her to kill, and forced her to
survive. The war may end in 1945, but Lily's battle will have only
just begun. " Janes has a] sure grasp of period detail and a]
seamless way of mixing fact and fiction." -Booklist "A master of
the psychological thriller." -Midwest Book Review "Janes has
effectively recreated a period of French history that is usually
unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and gripping." -The
Drood Review of Mystery J. Robert Janes (b. 1935) is a mystery
author best known for writing historical thrillers. Born in
Toronto, he holds degrees in mining and geology, and worked as an
engineer, university professor, and textbook author before he
started writing fiction. He began his career as a novelist by
writing young adult books, starting with The Odd-Lot Boys and the
Tree-Fort War (1976). He wrote his last young adult novel, Murder
in the Market, in 1985, by which time he had begun writing for
adults, starting with the four-novel Richard Hagen series. In 1992,
Janes published Mayhem, the first in the long-running St-Cyr and
Kohler series, for which he is best known. These police procedurals
set in Nazi-occupied France have been praised for the author's
attention to historical detail, as well as their swift-moving
plots. The thirteenth in the series, Bellringer, was published in
2012."
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