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What Colette Didn't Know

by Mike Crowley

161 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2054; ISBN 1-4251-0297-2; US$17.04, C$19.60, EUR14.00, £9.80

Provocative reading for anyone with a "secure" job.

About the Book

Hans Konrad, department manager in an insurance company falls in love with a stewardess on a flight to Seoul. Later he discovers she's French living in Paris. Hans regularly travels to Paris where the company has an office, so he arranges a date with Colette. The date sparks a love affair, and only two months later Hans proposes marriage, which, after some consideration Colette accepts. She moves to Frankfurt, where they get married. Back from their honeymoon in Crete, Hans finds a letter on his desk, which turns out to be his dismissal. Hans keeps it a secret from Colette and goes out every morning as if going to work. Hans and Colette keep in touch by mobile, but on December 6th on her way home from work, Colette wants to phone Hans but finds her mobile doesn't work. She checks her notebook for the office number and dials from a telephone box. It's not Hans she hears, but a female voice telling her Mr. Konrad is no longer with the company. On inquiry, Colette is told that he left the company last June.

About the Author

Mike Crowley was born in 1941 in Cork City. He lived in Dublin, Frankfurt, West Berlin, Perugia and Rome. Later he returned to Frankfurt, where he lives today.

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