The Forty-First Thief
On a public beach in St. Tropez, Pascal, a bi-sexual young man is found stabbed and sexually mutilated in a manner that has been associated with murders in the Middle East. When the police detective who is in charge of the investigation is also discovered murdered, 77 year old retired soldier, General Pineau, France's head of the Middle East Section of counter espionage is called in to help with the crime.
In Washington, El Kaffar, the representative...