New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel. "A war criminal returns to the scene of the crime. It's 1999 and Emile Poulquet awaits sentencing in a Paris court for deporting thousands to almost certain death during World War II. But haunted by ghosts from his past, and determined to confront his dark legacy, he escapes and heads toward his beloved Finier, a rural town in the south of France where he once served as prefect." 445 pp. ISBN: 0-374130752.