The Scapegoat
He took another man's name... lived another man's life... loved another man's woman!
MysteryCrimeThrillerchauffeurfranceupper classdrug addictionmarriage contractmurdercountesslook-alikemistressblack and whitedeathassumed identity
A tense identity-swap thriller that traps an ordinary man in a web of aristocratic deceit, murder, and moral compromise.
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
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