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The plot revolves around the protagonist, Michael Dillon, and his wife, Moira Dillon, who are held hostage in their house by terrorists that are members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). The men force Dillon, an apolitical hotel manager, to drive his bomb-laden car to the hotel he manages in order to kill a leading Protestant reverend, members of the Orange Order, and militant Protestants, all of whom are attending the same function. However, various aspects of female psychology are also present throughout the novel, including Dillon's extramarital affair with Canadian writer Andrea and Moira's mental breakdown following the revelation of his infidelity.

Pierre Brossard a un lourd passé.

Pendant la guerre, il a dirigé la section marseillaise de la Milice, bras armé de la collaboration d'État avec l'occupant nazi. Responsable d'exécutions sommaires de Juifs, il est sous le coup d'une condamnation à mort prononcée à la Libération. Or, Brossard n'a jamais répondu de ses crimes. Depuis plus de quarante ans, il vit dans l'anonymat, sous la protection d'une certaine frange de l'Église catholique.

Mais la rumeur bruisse, la presse le traque, son passé le rattrape. Et la justice n'est plus seule à ses trousses°: une organisation juive a juré de l'abattre et d'épingler sur son corps une "°déclaration°", pour solde de ses crimes... Partagé entre désir de rédemption et rage de survivre, Paul Brossard ressemble à s'y méprendre au premier Français condamné à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité pour crime contre l'humanité°: Paul Touvier.

Lorsque Brian Moore entreprit la rédaction de La Déclaration en 1992, l'ex-milicien, en attente de jugement depuis son arrestation, venait en effet de bénéficier d'un surprenant non-lieu. Mais l'affaire n'en était pas à son premier rebondissement... Inspiré d'une des pages les plus sombres de l'Occupation.

Somewhere in an unnamed Eastern bloc country, someone is out to silence Cardinal Bern. Is it the Secret Police, or is it - more shockingly - fanatical Catholic activists who believe that Bern, by keeping the peace between Church and State, has finally compromised himself too far?

Narrowly escaping an assassination attempt, Bern is abducted by sinister, anonymous men, and spirited away to a safe-house against his will. Evading his unknown captors, he is faced with a horrifying proposition: no longer sure of whom he can trust, Bern realises that he alone can avert the revolution which threatens to tear his country apart...

Awaiting her husband's arrival on holiday in France, Sheila Redden,quiet, middle-aged doctor's wife, suddenly finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with a young American, ten years her junior.

Summoned to the grand country estate of Napoleon III, the famed illusionist Henri Lambert and his wife Emmeline are drawn into an elaborate plan to further French influence in North Africa and subdue the rebellious Arab tribes. An ambitious, intelligent man, Lambert will go to desperate lengths to satisfy his emperor. Emmeline, meanwhile, undergoes a spiritual conversion, shedding her former notions of patriotism and propriety in the hot glare of the desert sun. From the splendor and intrigue of the French royal court of the 1850s to the wild majesty of the Sahara, "The Magician's Wife" is an exciting, exotic, and glamorously seductive novel.