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The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd

18 March 2021 By Editor

Buy The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd

Paris, Friday, 14 June, 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris, making headlines around the globe.

Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.

But there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is responsible for the murder of four refugees. The unwanted dead, who no one wants to claim.

To do so, he must tread carefully between the Occupation and the Resistance, between truth and lies, between the man he is and the man he was.

All the while becoming whoever he must be to survive in this new and terrible order descending on his home…

The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd is published in paperback on 18 March, 2021.

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