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The Five from Nouvelle Bruges

The Five from Nouvelle Bruges

Bailey, John

Paperback

Series: The Occupations of Nouvelle Bruges and New Lyon, Book 3

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798188263256
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In an occupied city where every movement is documented and every document is monitored, a hotel concierge discovers five names in an overnight manifest bearing a designation that appears in no official vocabulary. The designation means one thing: these men are to be made to vanish.

Élise Marceau has spent eleven months reading every document that crosses her desk. She has mapped the occupation's administrative systems with the same thoroughness she brings to managing the Hôtel Aurore. She knows how the apparatus works - and, more usefully, she knows where it doesn't.

The five men she sets out to save are a railway freight scheduler, a former detective, a structural engineer, a linguist, and a shipping logistics administrator - professionals whose expertise the occupation has decided constitutes a threat. What follows is not a rescue. It is an argument in document form: a demonstration that systems can be defeated from within, using their own logic, by people who understand them.

From a hotel concierge desk in an occupied city to an interstellar merchant vessel carrying a secret cargo, The Five from Nouvelle Bruges is a novel about competence as resistance, documentation as action, and the specific, unheroic courage of people who pay close attention.

Continuing the world of The Concierge of Hôtel Aurore - and complete in itself.

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