Jacques Gaillard has disappeared. The brilliant teacher who trained some of France's best and brightest as future Prime Ministers and Presidents vanished ten years ago, presumably from Paris. Talk about your cold case. Enzo Macleod, a biologist teaching in Toulouse instead of pursuing a rewardimg career in forensics back home in Scotland, is challenged to find the missing man by applying new science to an old case. In Paris, Enzo meets Roger Raffin, author of a book on unsolved murders. Armed with Raffin's notes, Enzo finds Gaillard's head. Artifacts buried with the skull set him to interpreting the clues they provide and to following in someone's footsteps after the rest of Gaillard. With Extraordinary People, Peter May begins a fascinating series set in modern France, driven by an outsider to French culture. www.enzomacleod.com