num_pages: 436
description: Youre a coward.Time and again as the New Year approaches that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.It starts innocently enough.While the residents of the Qubec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.Hes asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sret du Qubec would be assigned this task it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.They refuse citing academic freedom and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long Professor Robinsons views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact reality and delusion are so confused its near impossible to tell them apart.Discussions become debates debates become arguments which turn into fights. As sides are declared a madness takes hold.Abigail Robinson promises that if they follow her a va bien aller. All will be well. But not Gamache and his team know for everyone.When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.And the madness of crowds.
language: English
title: The Madness of Crowds
publisher: Minotaur Books