After the daring theft of a cache of secret documents, letters, and photographs from the vault of a Nice bank, the thief, an American war hero named Lambert, is tracked by the Corsican Mafia, the FBI, and the French detective Bellarmine
Robert Daley (1930-2026) was an American writer, journalist and New York City Police Department officer. He was the author of 31 books, six of which have been adapted for film, and a hundred or so magazine articles and stories.
Good; set in France in the 50s, an American leads robbery of bank valut, then matches wits with a French detective, who falls in love with the American's wife.
This was a favorite book when I first read it in the 80's. I read it a couple of times back then. I forgot the name until I finally asked about it 10 years ago on Reddit. Read it then and it was just as good as I remembered. Now it is on my To Be Read list again. Very well written unique setting and a real page-turner.
This is one of my favorite reread books I own. I read it years ago and every year I haul it out and read it again. It is like a ritual to read this one and Chiefs by Stuart Woods. Love these two books by two completely different authors but both awesome stories.