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|title=The Dying Minutes

|sort=Dying Minutes

|publisher=Preface Publishing

|date=April 2012

|summary=In 1978 a daring gold bullion robbery took place on the outskirts of Marseilles. No one was arrested and the gold was never found. Over twenty years later though, two different men receive unexpected gifts. One is a police officer and the other a lawyer. Although these two gifts appear unrelated, they both set off a stream of events that might ultimately lead to the mystery being solved.

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Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot is recovering after being shot after his last case. His pregnant girlfriend is away when he receives news that he has been left a boat – Constance - by an old sailor. At about the same time, lawyer, Claude Dupont visits one of his unsuccessful defendants in prison. The man is dying and leaves his lawyer an unusual bequest on which he feels that he needs to act. What follows starts to unnerve many of the criminal fraternity in the South of France and stirs up old rivalries between two of the most feared criminal families on the Cote d'Azur. It also raises questions about what happened to gold bullion, stolen over twenty years previously, and leads to a deadly race as both families seek the gold and also seek revenge. Amidst all of this, Jacquot seems to find his new acquisition at the heart of it all and starts to unravel the mysterious life of the boat's former owner.