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“And that is?”

“I’ll tell you what that is,” Henri said. “It’s for making the finest damned beer in France.”

“Hear, hear,” said my wife.

I beamed all around and raised my glass with my good arm. “I’ll drink to that,” I said proudly. And so we all did.

JOHN LESCROART, the New York Times best-selling author of such novels as The Mercy Rule, The 13th Juror, Nothing but the Truth, and The Hearing, lives with his family in northern California.

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Commander in chief of French army.