内容简介：
An American girl in Paris, Lucy Musinganineteen, pretty, witty, but down on her luckasees a botched shooting in a restaurant. The evident target is Hertzig, a weary old Swiss operative in the gray world of fiscal espionage. Cops swarm, the two are questioned at Quai DaOrsay. When the police find that they are both foreigners, they are let go. Outside, Lucy attaches herself to Hertzig for her own survivalas sake. Hertzig dares not trust her; dares not get rid of her. Did she finger him for the shooter? Each cautiously checks into the otheras background. During this, the gunman shoots again, kills a man, no innocent victim. In the midst of the danger, Lucy finds Hertzig funny; he finds her bright. The settingaJuly, 1953, the year Stalin died, but before AIDSaoffers the way Paris felt before it got so modern.