Horseman, Pass by

(Paperback, New edition)

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Marseilles, 1975. Bernard Vipont is a successful lawyer, but beneath his bourgeois surface lurk darker passions. His father having been killed by collaborators during the war, he has been waging a clandestine campaign of retribution ever since, reappropriating art treasures stolen from Jews. But when he discovers a stolen masterpiece in a monastery, he may have stumbled into a maze of deceit and betrayal that even his ingenuity cannot extricate him from. A maze that seems curiously linked to his other obsession - the sexual fixation that forces him to enact a bizarre ritual in Madame Gazhakian's high-class brothel...

Reviews

A tightly woven thriller - DAILY MAIL

A stylish novel of intrigue from the highly acclaimed author of STOLEN MARCHES - PUBLISHING NEWS

The French background and the personalities are intelligently conceived and fleshed out - THE TIMES

A thoughtful and evocative reminder of how the mid-century upheaval of the war still casts a dark, foreboding shadow over France...Crackanthorpe's first novel, STOLEN MARCHES, stood critical comparison with Sebastian Faulks' BIRDSONG; this might be compared with CHARLOTTE GRAY - BOOKSELLER

,An intricate and topical plot' - TIMES METRO

Author Bio

David Crackanthorpe was born at Newbiggin, Westmoreland, where his family had lived for some eight hundred years. He studied law at Oxford and practised as a barrister in London. He now lives in France where he has worked as a forester, gardener and cultivator of olive trees.