While Gervais is the main protagonist of the story, the novel is far more interested in the three women who drive its plot. But little is he prepared for the strange events that his duplicity would trigger. Gervais, who had killed his wife before the war, has no regrets in resorting to trickery. One of them, Bernard, dies in a train accident on the way to Lyon and the other, Gervais decides to usurp Bernard’s identity to trick Bernard’s godmother, Hélène, into sheltering him. Set during the Second World War, the story starts with two POWs fleeing the German camp to get back to France. Les Louves, which was published in 1956, is a typical noir from the pair. The pair inspired great films as well given that Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “ Les Diaboliques” were based on their stories. While Boileau came up with the plot and the story, Narcejac wrote the books, adding great dialogue and cold as ice descriptions. Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac were a writer pair who dedicated themselves to writing incredible crime fiction through the 50s to the 70s.
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