"Patrick Marnham set out originally to write 'an uncontroversial biography of a very brave man' but the research he began more than a decade ago uncovered a far more fascinating and ambivalent figure. It took Marnham from the Provencal village where Jean Moulin spent his childhood, through the scenes of his career and his bohemian life as an artist in Montparnasse, right up to the doctor's room in Caluire where he was sitting when Klaus Barbie's Gestapo burst through the door and where, in 1985, Marnham interviewed the doctor himself. Marnham's biographical detection discloses a plot within a plot and summarizes the evidence as to who actually killed Jean Moulin. He also describes how an heroic legend was manufactured to take the place of an heroic life."--BOOK JACKET.