Deception

Description

I felt always that the crumbling paper must hold something that was more like speaking flesh and blood . . . that somewhere amid these shreds . . . I would learn something of this family lost to silence; something about a house that was quickly abandoned and a family divided, and then all gates shut on the past. A young Australian man arrives in riot-ravaged Paris, armed with an old manuscript written in French and an obsessive desire to piece together the fragments of a mystery that has haunted him since childhood. His journey takes him back and forth in time, over the ruins of desert and city, and through the veils and mirages of history and memory. From Paris to the desolate, windswept Australian desert to the appalling dank prisons of 19th Century New Caledonia, Deception tells an epic story of a search for truth, spanning continents and generations. About the author......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 One......Page 10 Two......Page 25 Three......Page 43 Four......Page 59 Five......Page 72 Six......Page 91 Seven......Page 105 Eight......Page 122 Nine......Page 131 Ten......Page 146 Eleven......Page 158 Twelve......Page 169 Thirteen......Page 186 Fourteen......Page 199 Fifteen......Page 220 Sixteen......Page 230 Seventeen......Page 237 Eighteen......Page 252 Nineteen......Page 277 Epilogue......Page 284