Inbetween episode 7

Par MALVINA TEDGUI

You are eighty-four years old. You are finally savouring the freedom that comes with age. What can anyone do to an old man? And what do you have to fear, other than man's common fate?

Unless you are Albert Galan and you are one of those men who has shaped his life rather than simply living it. You have negotiated the years of the last century and you cannot imagine concluding your life – a life that has been all about decision and determination – without leaving the world you are a part of something that obsesses you and to which you have never, in all this time, found a solution.

What Albert Galan doesn't know, but is going, reluctantly, to discover, is that his obsession is of interest to certain men in the East, Ukranians and Europeans, who don't want his past to resurface. Ukraine wants to join Europe, the Europeans want the same thing, the Russians are against it.

Albert Galan will find himself caught up in the middle of opposing national interests and he will feel the power of sovereign states brought to bear on individual history. There are those who will not hesitate to use force or even to threaten his life.

This is how he finds himself badly beaten in hospital where he will meet Rachel, a retired psychoanalyst working for her friend Superintendent Bion.

But Albert Galan has built his life alone and he is not a man to confide in others or to let them make decisions for him. He knows his objective, which concerns no-one but him, and nothing is going to stop him.

Faced with his refusal to talk, Rachel is troubled, but decides to protect the old man despite himself and to gain his trust. Strangely, Rachel is affected by this man's quest. The empathy that is a part of her character takes on a more particular, a more personal hue.

A notion of humanity, perhaps?

Whatever it is, will she be able to help the old man, against his wishes, and, in her turn, foil the state powers so that Albert Galan can finally end his life as he has lived it?

About the author:
Malvina TEDGUI has already written 3 others books. She is wellknown as a good writer and Rachel, her heroin, is between the Mentalist and Sherlock Holmes.

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: XinXii
• Date de sortie: 17 déc. 2013
• ISBN: 9791091866125

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Thirteenth Phase

Albert listened for the sound of the door closing. He sat up and lifted the duvet cautiously. He went to the opposite wall, lifted the picture and opened his safe.

He was in an uncomfortable position, causing him to grimace. He stood back upright, holding his lower back with both hands and went to find a chair to continue his observation.

He needed to think things over in front of this deep, black, open box.

Rachel came back to his mind. She is a kind woman and astute, a good psychoanalyst, even if she is retired, she has the right kind of mind for it, he thought. Her analysis concerning my parents was charming. Moreover, there was some truth in it, but what could she understand?

Albert thought about his life. He smiled when he thought that, in the end, without being aware of it, he had fallen in with his father’s wishes.

His father had said to him,