However, Captain Charest was written into the attack scene in Muizon - 90 minutes away from Paris. The ending has him at the chateau and being killed there, as all really bad guys should be. So ... I simply tracked back through the story and eliminated his participation in the Muizon raid. After all, Les Police Nacionale's jurisdiction is the major French cities - not the countryside, sort of.
Never write anything cut in stone until you are done, finis! Like Steve Jobs said, if you are not willing to kill your cash cow, someone else will ... or something like that.
Lanval, the wanna-be boyfriend in the very sweet and innocent love triangle, is at police HQ, not at the chateau where he is the only who actually kills Charest. So, I wrote in a small scene where he overhears Charest (in Paris ... good thing I changed that) say he is kidnapping the lovely Ariele. He then finds where the maquis will meet before the attack and braves being killed himself to warn his rival, Richard. Brave guy ... he becomes in the eyes of Ariele the man he wants her to know. Important for the ending!
That leaves the venerable Paris security forces garrison. They need to be gone, but NOT at Muizon, one of the deceptions. I reverted back to Book 2's story and have them raiding the transport company (read the book!) to get them out of the way, leaving room for the maquis to attack ... EXCEPT, Charest leads the police force instead into the fray ... SO I wrote a scene where the communist maquis called the FTP ( a real group) join the attack to balance out the numbers and ensure they get guns and ammunition from the armory ... which is NOT the objective of Richard's attack.
Confused? Good. The point is, all these details can be changed as long as you have the courage in your own work to write an ending that makes no sense - then make it make sense. And then edit like crazy!
Read the book - it all makes sense now (I hope).
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