Used book - La fortune des Laufer, Bernard Lenteric

Marthe and Rodolphe meet under the lanterns of a neighborhood dance, at the time of the Liberation. Between the daughter of "bougnats" and the demobilized sergeant, it's love at first sight. And also a common ambition: to succeed. But one cannot carve out an empire with impunity in nocturnal Paris, with its dance halls and pleasure spots. To consolidate their fortune, they will have to employ the most ruthless methods, and not flinch even from crime. They will pay a very heavy price for it: the life of their son Paul, murdered. And it is finally Jean, the disowned, neglected son, who will stand up to them as their true heir... An heir who rejects them. The novelist of "La nuit des enfants rois" and "Les Maîtres du pain" takes us, with his usual efficiency, into a family saga full of shadows and light, where the suspense of the best thrillers takes on the hues of Shakespearean tragedy.