The Scapegoat

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'Someone jolted my elbow as I drank, and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well. I was looking at myself.'

The two men stared into the mirror of the station buffet at Le Mans, and it was as though one man looked back.

This chance encounter gave Jean the opportunity to escape from a way of life he was daily finding more and more intolerable.

It involved John with a mysterious chateau, a business on the verge of bankruptcy and three beautiful women - Jean's wife, his sister-in-law and his mistress. For the former history professor was now the arrogant and selfish Comte de Gue!