conquest

Henri La Rue is a family man in Paris in the late 1950s, a man who manages the day-to-day of the family business, with all of the accompanying complications and headaches. An uncle who is still his titular boss, a wife whom he butts heads with, a son who is a bit of a knucklehead, a daughter he never sees, employees who don’t always listen — Henri La Rue is an everyman in many ways, like you or me or the man next door.
That is, if you or me or the man next door ran whorehouses and casinos, and put out money on the street as a loan shark. That is, if you or me or the man next door broke the legs of the recalcitrant or murdered rivals, enemies, really anybody who got in the La Rue family’s way.
Conquest is the first installment of the La Rue family crime thriller series. When a rival crime family in a neighboring Paris arrondissement suffers a loss, Henri decides to make a move into their territory, valuable because of the presence of two train stations within its boundaries. Operated properly — that is, after paying off the correct people, including the police — a train station through which so many consumer goods pass can be a goldmine for a Paris gang. Henri wants the goldmine, both of them.
But when he takes them both, the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l’Est, a third rival gang becomes involved, and the resulting war threatens to destroy not only the La Rue family but everything that the La Rues have built up over the years.yourself in a gripping tale of courage and resilience. Explore the captivating story that has readers on the edge of their seats.