The Faded Alibi

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The Faded Alibi

Gaspard Barbier, forty-two, a cross-border trucker with a left hand that had begun to tremble like a loose wire, sat in the kitchen of the public library annex in Normandy, waiting for the phone that only rang from debt collectors to stop. The room smelled of damp wool and the metallic tang of the brass keys hanging on the hook by the door, a small inventory of his stalled life: a half-eaten...

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