The Great Swindle - Pierre Lemaitre drawing on every book of

drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca and on his uncollected works

Before he knows it

Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala

essays and speeches

with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels

The Great Swindle - Pierre Lemaitre drawing on every book ofOctober 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard