Gerald Jay’s The Hanged Man, starts out fast pace and leaves no detail spared. I’m wondering if the rest of the novel will move as fast but where some authors slow the reader down with back story and detail, Jay seems to move quickly. As a reader who knows little French or how to read certain French titles, this will surely be a learning lesson. I almost wish I wasn’t such a purist and had a tablet that I could tap on words for their meaning and pronunciation. If that is the only thing to slow me down then so be it. I’m curious as to how the reporter mentioned in the book blurb fit in and if it will seem like an organic development or forced. So far, I can’t tell if Mazarelle is a womanizer, or I misread him. Also picking up on stereotypes of the “typical French person” or if it is really sincere as Jay describes Mazarelle smoking and how he describes the woman at the parade.