Book description
In 1972 a gold bullion convoy is hijacked in Marseilles. The security
trucks and hijackers are swiftly rounded up, but a ton of gold has
disappeared.
More than twenty years later, Daniel Jacquot receives an unexpected
gift from an old fisherman. At the same time, a Marseilles lawyer
called Claude Dupont receives an equally unexpected gift from a dying
gangland boss.
Both gifts point the way to the missing gold and pit Jacquot and
Dupont against the Polineaux and Duclos familles, two of the
oldest and most feared crime syndicates on the Côte d'Azur.
When the Marseilles police become involved following a series of
gruesome murders, the investigation is headed by Chief Inspector
Isabelle Cassier. An old friend and sometime lover of Jacquot's,
Isabelle discovers that the years haven't lessened her longing for the
maverick Marseilles cop, and that her feelings for him are far from professional.
Together they embark on a cut-throat hunt for the gold, with hit-men
from the Polineaux and Duclos clans hot on their heels. But after
nearly thirty years, is the gold still there? And if it is, who will
get to it first?
Martin O'Brien was educated at The Oratory School and Hertford
College, Oxford. He was Travel Editor at British
Vogue
in the 1970s and has written for a number of international
publications. He is the author of six previous Jacquot novels and lives
with his wife and daughters near Cirencester in Gloucestershire.
