Lawless : Roman Books UK Sr : 9789383868339 : 9383868333 : 30 Nov 2017 : When sole survivor of an RAF bomber that crashes in the mountains of central France in the winter of 1941, former Oxford student Philip Lawless is rescued by two sisters, Séverine and Thérèse Chevalier who live in a remote farmhouse that was once a fortified outpost of the mediaeval Knights Hospitalers from whom the sisters' family is descended. Against orders, Lawless repays his debt by remaining to work on the farm and in time falls in love with and marries Thérèse. He joins Séverine in the French Resistance, takes part in its operations and gains the respect of her uncle Alexandre, scholar and Resistance chief, and Alexandre's lover, the seductive Justine Lamphier. The German invasion of Unoccupied France in 1942 forces Lawless to leave his wife and newborn son and escape back to England through Spain carrying secret documents from Alexandre for British Intelligence. He becomes a pilot in a bomber squadron heav