The Frenchman — Velda Johnston

For Manhattan career girl Joan Creighton, the trip to Europe was a flight from the memory of cruel betrayal in a love affair. She would tour the continent as companion to a President's widow, and hope to find forgetfulness.

But from the moment Joan met Paul Lescaut, the handsome Frenchman who was to be their personal guide she began to remember...what it was to be a woman...what it was to want a man...what it was to suspect his every word and gesture.

Not even her worst fears, however, measured up to the truth. If Joan had lost her innocence in love, she had yet to learn the full meaning of evil in a cold-war world where passion writhed on the puppet strings of peril--and in the arms of a man who revealed nothing while demanding everything...