The it’s your whole life

Iain Bamforth

  • The Adversary: A True Story of Murder and Deception by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Linda Coverdale
    Bloomsbury, 183 pp, £14.99, January 2001, ISBN 0 7475 5189 8

In the small hours of Monday, 11 January 1993, Luc Ladmiral, a GP in Voltaire-Ferney, a dormitory town for Geneva on the French side of the border, received a call to say that the house of his closest friend in the neighbouring town was in flames. When he got there, the firemen were bringing out the charred remains of the two children, Antoine (five) and Caroline (seven), and their mother Florence. Only Jean-Claude Romand, the father, still showed signs of life. He was rushed away in an ambulance, unconscious, to a burns unit across the Swiss border.

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