Cut From The Same Cloth - Gowans, Glyn

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Résumé :

Set in Bordeaux in the early 2000s, local lad Jean-Claude Bourjois, the technical director of top-flight vineyard Ch?teau La Fayette, just wants a quiet life making classic claret. But the aspirations of his sophisticated Parisian wife - an unsuccessful artist - and the greed of La Fayette's aristocratic owner, are creating serious dilemmas for Jean-Claude.

Rescue seems at hand when two of the world's leading wine experts - dynamic young American Laura Appleton and ageing British playboy Quincy Dubloon - invite Jean-Claude to join them in transforming Ch?teau Belle-M?re, an obscure bankrupt vineyard with potential. Laura, however, has an obsessive ulterior motive in luring handsome Jean-Claude away from La Fayette...

Biographie:
Glyn Gowans was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and read Law at Durham University. He joined a major UK law firm, qualified as a solicitor, and specialised in intellectual property. After nineteen years with the firm, he took early retirement to write, moving to Bordeaux. Two years later, a finca in the Mallorcan countryside became his home, an ideal location to complete his first novel, Gloria! Gloria!. Bordeaux's magic has inspired a second novel, Cut From The Same Cloth, in which fraud and treachery underlie the transformation of an obscure Bordeaux vineyard into a megastar. And Glyn's eleven years in Mallorca have generated a third satire, Infernal Paradise, which tackles the mounting frictions between the Mallorcans and the thousands of Europeans 'colonising' their island. Violence finally erupts, provoking an international crisis. Both books will be published shortly. After returning to the UK, and having undertaken extensive research, Glyn has also written a biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent, who died in an air crash in 1942 while serving in the RAF....

Sommaire:
Quincy's clandestine enterprises in Bordeaux would shock both Laura and Jean-Claude. Yet none of them could ever imagine the machinations of Belle-M?re's bitter ex-owners.

Even though the web of deceit begins to unravel when all three partners move into Belle-M?re's rambling ch?teau, Bordeaux itself - 'Europe's most civilised city' - has the last laugh, ensuring that everyone gets their just deserts.