Penrose Chapter Summary

Penrose changes the subject and asks Paul what his emergency was. Paul tells him he wants to go to the French authorities and that powerful people at Eden-Olympia and the Cannes police are involved. He went to Penrose because he wanted someone who would back him up. Penrose asks him is it had anything to do with Greenwood and Paul tells him that it’s possible. He says he knew what was happening and might have been murdered because he was going to do something about it. Paul wants to report armed robberies, murders, drive-byes, drug dealing, etc. Penrose stops him and tells him that those are huge charges and asks who exactly is involved. Paul responds “senior management at Eden-Olympia. Pascal Zander, Alain Delage, Agassi and any number of company chairmen and managing directors. Plus most of those killed by Greenwood”. The one who had a lot of power were the ones doing all the violent acts. Then Paul mentions that he has witnessed the crimes. He tells him that three …show more content…
The narrator is Paul Sinclair who is an ex RAF pilot and was injured in a plane accident. As he starts to investigate into the murders he begins uncovering other issues. Jane Sinclair is Paul wife and was the reason for them moving into Eden-Olympia. She is a pediatrician who replaced Dr. Greenwood. Throughout the book she is compared to being or looking very young, however, everybody in Eden-Olympia seems to be very fond of her. As she takes on all the long hours she starts be more drawn to the Eden-Olympia ways. Dr. David Greenwood was the former physician there but happened to go on a killing rampage and ending it with himself. However, everyone mentioned that it was out of his character and he was much liked. Dr. Wilder Penrose is the private psychiatrist in Eden. He seems to sort of run most things there. He encourages others to act out violently to relieve stress in order to keep working. He built up this idea from his father boxing