Used book – The Woman in the Fifth, Douglas Kennedy, Bernard Cohen

Beyond the city lights, where tourists never venture, lies occult Paris. Shadows lurk everywhere. Trouble is never far.

10th arrondissement. In this sordid street, whose name is a misnomer for Paradise, Harry Ricks has found refuge. Driven out by his wife, rejected by his daughter, the American academic lives a bitter exile. The only glimmer of light in this waking nightmare: a woman. An encounter that will haunt him...

"This book, as fascinating as its predecessors, is likely to surprise." Claire Julliard – L'Obs "You don't read his books, you devour them." Valérie Robert – Version femina