A Troubled Peace (2009)
“Le patron’s men had risked the heist because a British SOE officer had landed in a tree when he was parachuted in and broken his arm. The doctor had needed plaster to set it and there had been none left in the Vercors villages.
“As they leave the hospital, they see the commandant car outside a certain mademoiselle’s apartment, keys inside. Voilà. I ride in style.” Le patron was driving and talking, gesturing with both hands to make his points. More than once Henry had gasped and braced himself,... as le patron turned to look at him during the telling of a story and swerved wildly, nearly hurling them off the narrow high cliff roads.
Le patron must have been making the other man in the car nervous as well, because when they stopped to dump more charcoal into the burner, that man took over the wheel. The new driver was from Senegal, a huge, six-foot-three expanse of man with wide shoulders and a long neck. He had a devil of a time folding his lanky legs up underneath the steering wheel of the sleek, small car.MoreLess
“As they leave the hospital, they see the commandant car outside a certain mademoiselle’s apartment, keys inside. Voilà. I ride in style.” Le patron was driving and talking, gesturing with both hands to make his points. More than once Henry had gasped and braced himself,... as le patron turned to look at him during the telling of a story and swerved wildly, nearly hurling them off the narrow high cliff roads.
Le patron must have been making the other man in the car nervous as well, because when they stopped to dump more charcoal into the burner, that man took over the wheel. The new driver was from Senegal, a huge, six-foot-three expanse of man with wide shoulders and a long neck. He had a devil of a time folding his lanky legs up underneath the steering wheel of the sleek, small car.MoreLess
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