The Strumpet Wind Author:Gordon Merrick Roger Chandler was young, cheerful, self-assured - an American officer who, like many Americans, believed that black is black and white, white. His assignment was routine enough: to work with the French collaborationist, Jean-Louis Mersanton, to live with his family, learn his secrets - and then turn him over to the authorities to be shot. Bu... more »t his job took a terrible and unexpected twist. Nercanton and his family became Robert's friends. They loved and trsted him. They did not realize, and he could not tell them, that he was to be the instrument of their destruction, that no matter how sincerely Mercanton tried to undo his past, there was no way out for him. There wan no way out for Roger Chandler wither, it seemed, caught as her was in a web of conflicting loyalties, but he determined that when the crisis came he would be prepared...and then he met Danielle, the beautiful enchanting Danielle. From their first meeting he knew that this would be no casual affair, that there would never be anything quite like this for him again. Their love was swift, immediate , devastating - a light flashing through the gathering darkness.« less