She is called Simone. She is the illicit lover of Dr. Emile Bastien, who practices medicine on the rue de Maubeuge, treating Parisians and Germans alike. But Simone is more than his mistress; she is the guardian of all of his most dangerous secrets.
The mistress knows things about Emile's son and daughter - and about the wife who has hidden herself away on a French country estate. But there is one secret the mistress has not been let in on: an ingenious scheme that arouses her suspicions even as others plot to keep it from her at all costs.
The mistress retaliates by hatching a plan of her own revolving around a guilt-ridden SS officer, a suspicious death, and a chilling interrogation. She will turn the tables on the others and spin a web of greed and deception that will ensnare them all. The mistress waits to play her final card...until an unexpected reversal of fortune leads to a confrontation that will have consequences no one could have planned.

Philippe Tapon

Penguin Publishing Group

N A L

United States, United States of America

Reprint, 2000-02-01

Reprint, PS, 2000

January 31, 2000

No TOC.

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Set in warravaged 1943 Paris, a darkly erotic tale follows the story of Simone, the nurse and mistress of a doctor who is implicated in the death of a Nazi and whose family is also plotting against him. Reprint.

"Previously published in a Dutton edition"--T.p. verso
"A William Abrahams book."

My grandfather had a mistress named Simone.

2023-06-28