The de Lafitte Protocol

THE de LAFITTE PROTOCOL is the first book of the saga trilogy. It is also the code used to conceal the planned brutal assassination of the ancient eponymous family. It is also the mystery thriller of the trilogy. Within the opening chapter you the reader experience, during the languid setting of a lawn meet at Chateau Lafitte, the dogged persistence of an ex-Mafia assassin as he lies in wait in their huge hunting forest. On a bitterly cold Saturday, the 28th of November 1999 he huddles on the top branch of the tallest tree in the forest for the exciting duration of the stag hunt. He finally gets Jacques, Le Comte de Lafitte in his Zeiss telescopic sights, and watches him kill the stag in the icy pond, half a mile away. The de Lafitte family, devout Christians who survived the French revolution and both World Wars, only suspect that they are still being undermined by the re-emergence of an old atheistic code of conduct. Which means that there is no code, other than what one can get away with! The author however does not want to lose faith with his reader and hints and subsequently reveals who is behind the terror, whilst still retaining most of the mystery for the participants of the action. Such as that of Sir Henry Steere, a former 'friend' of the family, now a dismissed ex-MI6 operator, who inherits the small New York Private Bank from his father, who had been given it, by his own devout Quaker family. They in turn had been granted it by a grateful de Lafitte family, in gratitude for trusted work over the centuries, after the de Lafitte family reorganized their world wide holdings, after the 2nd World War. Charles Russell-Lafitte, the young Oxford nephew of Uncle Jacques who also normally acted as his field master, is the first to have had a pre-monition of the assassination. But it is here in Oxford that the grotesque variant of Charles' earlier vision of his premonition of the assassination on Comte de Lafitte's life is paradoxically enacted on Charles himself. Would the most skilful surgeons in Oxford be able to save Dr.Charles, or would he be bedridden as a paraplegic for the rest of his life. As the significance of the de Lafitte family quickly becomes known to the security services, the Oxford Bulldog's call in MI5 who duly rope in MI6, who call in the CIA and Interpol. But it remains a mystery, until the further assassinations take place, again on the 28th November 2011 at a subsequent lawn meet at Chateau de Lafitte and at Eton College Chapel and the Wall game. The 'de Lafitte Protocol' assassinations continue apace without end interspersed around the busy lives of the de Lafitte family, amid the subsequent discovered drama of the survival of Charles' twin. The love stories hidden throughout will come to fruition after the end of the thrilling Kentucky fox hunt, which starts at the end of this thriller.

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Author(s) - John van den Bergh

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ISBN - 9781784561345

Dimensions - 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm

Page Count - 237