Buy this book on-line SCHLEIFER, GERRY: : Five Million FrancsLONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1973. ISBN 0718110307.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.B/w photographic upper wrap with author's b/w portrait photograph to rear wrap.Minimal shelf-wear with negligible creasing to dw/dj edges and a small closed tear to bottom,rear edge - no other nicks or tears present.Top edge lightly marked with some ageing to same and fore-edge,but contents pristine.Red paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers with no off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-253pp.
Five million francs,an immense ransom for
a kidnapped child,but then the Swiss banker Jean Meier and his wife are an immensely wealthy couple.Five million francs,enough to supply three young kidnappers with fleets of sports cars,to take them on countless luxury world cruises.Yet it is something other than this tempting sum that turns Lina, Jean-Claude and Chris to 'child-borrowing'.
Lina,regretting the art training she has sacrificed; Jean-Claude,prematurely settled down with a family and unexciting job; Chris,his student days behind him and the uninviting prospect of a respectable job and marriage ahead: all three share a feeling of emptiness and restlessness,and
that is why,as Jean-Claude puts it,'We decided to introduce a little excitement into our lives.To relieve the monotony.To do something stupid and to see if we could
get away with it.' The enterprise is a game,one which requires the utmost foresight and is played for high stakes, but which nevertheless allows the winning team scope for laughter as they compose the ransom letter with its 'love and kisses from little Marc',listen to the desperate radio bulletins and count the wads of banknotes.But then something is revealed which turns the game into deadly seriousness.
Gerry Schleifer,who sets the story in the south of France,is herself French-born and the mother of a small boy.In this first, debut novel,she has created three sharply real characters and explored the developing relationship between them without for an instant slackening the taut narrative of their crime.
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