THE de LAFITTE PROTOCOL is the first book of the saga trilogy. It
is also the code used to conceal the planned brutal assassination
of the ancient eponymous family. It is also the mystery thriller of
the trilogy. Within the opening chapter you the reader experience,
during the languid setting of a lawn meet at Chateau Lafitte, the
dogged persistence of an ex-Mafia assassin as he lies in wait in
their huge hunting forest. On a bitterly cold Saturday, the 28th of
November 1999 he huddles on the top branch of the tallest tree in
the forest for the exciting duration of the stag hunt. He finally
gets Jacques, Le Comte de Lafitte in his Zeiss telescopic sights,
and watches him kill the stag in the icy pond, half a mile away.
The de Lafitte family, devout Christians who survived the French
revolution and both World Wars, only suspect that they are still
being undermined by the re-emergence of an old atheistic code of
conduct. Which means that there is no code, other than what one can
get away with! The author however does not want to lose faith with
his reader and hints and subsequently reveals who is behind the
terror, whilst still retaining most of the mystery for the
participants of the action. Such as that of Sir Henry Steere, a
former 'friend' of the family, now a dismissed ex-MI6 operator, who
inherits the small New York Private Bank from his father, who had
been given it, by his own devout Quaker family. They in turn had
been granted it by a grateful de Lafitte family, in gratitude for
trusted work over the centuries, after the de Lafitte family
reorganized their world wide holdings, after the 2nd World War.
Charles Russell-Lafitte, the young Oxford nephew of Uncle Jacques
who also normally acted as his field master, is the first to have
had a pre-monition of the assassination. But it is here in Oxford
that the grotesque variant of Charles' earlier vision of his
premonition of the assassination on Comte de Lafitte's life is
paradoxically enacted on Charles himself. Would the most skilful
surgeons in Oxford be able to save Dr.Charles, or would he be
bedridden as a paraplegic for the rest of his life. As the
significance of the de Lafitte family quickly becomes known to the
security services, the Oxford Bulldog's call in MI5 who duly rope
in MI6, who call in the CIA and Interpol. But it remains a mystery,
until the further assassinations take place, again on the 28th
November 2011 at a subsequent lawn meet at Chateau de Lafitte and
at Eton College Chapel and the Wall game. The 'de Lafitte Protocol'
assassinations continue apace without end interspersed around the
busy lives of the de Lafitte family, amid the subsequent discovered
drama of the survival of Charles' twin. The love stories hidden
throughout will come to fruition after the end of the thrilling
Kentucky fox hunt, which starts at the end of this thriller.
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