The Patriarch: A Bruno, Chief Of Police Novel - Plot & Excerpts
The drive up the valley of the River Vézère was more than familiar, a landscape that never failed to please him even as some of the landmarks were personal. It was at that parking lot that the Spanish policeman’s car had exploded, and up on that cliff was the small cave of the Grotte du Sorcier where he had first kissed Isabelle. In the next small side valley was the archaeological site where an inconveniently modern skeleton had been unearthed. After Les Eyzies the road climbed and wound along wooded cliffs until the pointed turrets peeking above a low ridge marked the château of the Red Countess, whom he’d first seen drugged and kept comatose by a nurse who had been paid to do so. Beyond Tursac was the turnoff that led to Jacqueline’s house, where Bruno had first heard of the secret help the Americans had given to modernize France’s nuclear arsenal. He assumed that every cop kept such private landmarks filed away in his head, a thought that reminded him of the metal box in which Dr.
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