Download or read book The Mistress written by Philippe Tapon and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one woman's search for knowledge, money, and satisfaction. Dr. Emile Bastien, aided by his nurse and mistress, Simone, treats the digestive ailments of the Nazi occupiers. Bastien's increasingly cynical children and bitter wife, miles away in the French countryside, plot separately to obtain the family's fortune, twenty ingots of gold buried in the vineyard, for themselves.