![]() Throughout the book, I was forced to revise my opinions once or twice about what was really going on. Before long, it starts to become obvious that Jean is using John as a scapegoat Jean’s family and business are both in a mess and he wants someone else to have to deal with them. ![]() Naturally, they expect him to continue running the family glass-making business and arranging shooting parties – things that John has absolutely no experience in. When Jean’s chauffeur arrives at the hotel, John is unable to convince him of what has happened – and ends up accompanying the chauffeur to Jean de Gue’s chateau, where the Frenchman’s unsuspecting family assume that he really is Jean de Gue. John agrees to go for a drink with Jean but falls into a drunken stupor and wakes up in a hotel room to find that Jean has disappeared, taking John’s clothes and identity documents with him! ![]() ![]() What would you do if you came face to face with yourself? That’s what happens to John, an Englishman on holiday in France, when he meets his exact double – a Frenchman called Jean de Gue. ![]()
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