Exceptional People

A bet kicks off a biologist’s investigation into cold cases in the first instalment of the Enzo Files series

A ten-year-old mystery – the disappearance of the brilliant Jacques Gaillard, a lecturer at the elite French graduate school, the École Nationale d’Administration, which educates French prime ministers and presidents – becomes the subject of a bet. It’s a bet that Enzo Macleod, who left Scotland and a promising career in forensic science and now teaches biology in Toulouse, France, cannot afford to lose. He hopes that by using new scientific methods, he will be able to find out what happened to Jacques Gaillard.

Enzo travels to Paris to meet the journalist Roger Raffin, author of a book about seven famous unsolved murders, which includes the case of Jacques Gaillard. An unidentified skull in a suitcase found in the Paris catacombs soon leads Enzo to the trail of Gaillard's cleverly hidden remains.

"A brilliant story woven with the complexity of a spider's web. Intelligent, elaborate and ingenious. "
Steve Berry, writer

"This novel has it all: clues, red herrings, fractured relationships, dangerous affairs, and much more. "
Heartland Reviews

Peter May

Originally from Glasgow, he now lives in France. He has worked as a journalist and television scriptwriter. He is now a full-time writer. His six-part series of Chinese thrillers has brought him worldwide acclaim. The first volume, The Firemaker (1999; Czech edition 2015), has already been published by Host, as has the author's bestselling Lewis Trilogy, which includes the novels The Blackhouse (2009; Czech Host 2013), The Lewis Man (2012; Czech Host 2014) and The Chessmen (2013; Czech Host 2014). The novel Extraordinary People (2006) is the first work in the French series called The Enzo Files.

The Enzo Files series: Extraordinary People (2006; Host Spring 2015) || The Critic (2007; Host Spring 2016) || Blacklight Blue (2008; Host Spring 2017) || Freeze Frame (2010; Host Autumn 2017) || Blowback (2011; Host Spring 2018)