The Wistful Witness

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Chapter One In the canning lofts of the Breton coast, the air tastes of salt and rust, a metallic tang that coats the back of the throat before the eye can register the heat. Baptiste Marchand, thirty-four and sharp-featured, stepped off the ferry into the red dust of the mining camp, his leather satchel heavy with ledgers and a nursing pin, first class, tucked into his breast pocket. He had...

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