Under Cover

“Buy a little north wind,” a fan-seller urges Monty Vaughan on a blazing Paris afternoon. Then, just as the city’s hawkers have driven him from his café, he collides with the one old friend who may make his lonely summer far less ordinary.

It is late July in Paris, when the locals have fled for the seaside and the boulevards belong to tourists, hawkers—and Monty, an American who has lived here for two years. His reunion with Steven Denby brings back schoolboy memories, but Steve now speaks lightly of enemies and a life Monty knows nothing about. When the secretive friend reveals his involvement in smuggling pearls and asks Monty to help carry them to America, the sheltered heir feels the first real pull of danger. Is this the rescue Monty has been waiting for—or the beginning of trouble he has never imagined?

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