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...coroner's jury that had heard eight days of testimony, it was a "gross technical error." To Dr. Jean-Paul Drouin, 50, of Ottawa's Montfort Hospital, it was a "complication." To three of Drouin's surgical patients, it meant slow, painful death...
...victims-were Louis Drouin, 28, a short, stocky mulatto, and Marcel Numa, 21, a tall handsome Negro, both members of a 13-man guerrilla force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
...retaliation, Duvalier's secret police slaughtered whole families and even distant relatives of the rebels. Drouin's family was marched naked through the streets of their home town and "removed" at a nearby army barracks. Meantime, Duvalier's rag-tag army was killing off the miniature force one by one. The government bragged that only Drouin and Numa remained...
This is a very American novel written by a Frenchman about Belgium. The U.S. note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon...
...Drouin's destination is Mariakerke, a large, gloomy insane asylum where his old friend Du Roy is an intern. Both men are plagued by the European past, the American present and the possibly harrowing future. Drouin, his right hand maimed by battle wounds, has "got war" the way other people have smallpox. Du Roy, who plunged from the idealism of the resistance to light-fingered wealth in the black market, has turned to medicine out of guilt. The two men circle like scavengers over the asylum, searching for glints of God or reason in the chatter of psychotics...