The Frenchman: A Novel of Suspense

In the ordinary course of events, Joan Creighton and Paul Lescaut would never have met. It was Joan's elderly cousin Muffy, the President's widow, who brought the American girl and the Frenchman together. Muffy, the gentlest and most self-effacing of ex-First Ladies, invited her young relative to go abroad with her. Lescaut, a highly recommended courier, would meet them in Paris. Hoping that distance would help her forget an unhappy love affair, Joan flew the Atlantic, along with her kinswoman and Dan Manchester, the Secret Service man assigned to guard the ex-First Lady.