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The best-selling saga of criminal offense and international intrigue that lifted the gangster novel to amazing new heights. Dragged from the dank, rat-infested jail cell where he has spent recent calendar months, Buonaparte Sartene is given a selection: become a member of the French Amount of resistance or rot in jail for the next seven years. The used son of the Corsican Mafia family, Sartene is a thief with a convenience of violence and a knack for subterfuge - valuable tools in the fight against the Nazis. Nonetheless it is his other great gift idea - the capability to strike a offer - that changes Sartene's fortunes once and for all and propels this blistering, expansive thriller from the iced forests of occupied France to the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia. In trade for risking his life against the Germans, Sartene wants not simply a pardon but also the to negotiate his family in the French colony of his choice when the battle is over. Laos in the overdue 1940s is a land of delirious opportunity, offering a clean slate even to a guy with a previous as shadowy as the Corsican's. It is not long, however, before another federal government requires his special skills. In league with the OSS, Sartene and his boy, Jean, and lieutenants Auguste and Benito take control of the Laotian opium trade and drive the Communists out. But the price of power is dear, so when a betrayal from within his own business threatens the one thing that Sartene values more than money and power - his family - he retreats from the medication business. A decade later it is up to his grandson ,Pierre, a US intelligence agent stationed in Saigon in the early days of the Vietnam War, to track down the man who murdered his daddy and double-crossed his grandfather - and to enact an awful and righteous revenge. Using its sweeping range and nonstop action, The Corsican is a thriller as global as criminal offense so when relentless as a vendetta.
