Doc Savage: L'Homme de Bronze

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This French translation of Kenneth Robeson's Doc Savage novel follows the adventurer and his five-man team as they investigate the mysterious death of Doc's father. The story opens with a sinister figure scaling a New York construction site in darkness, carrying a black box and speaking an extinct language attributed to the "Son of the Feathered Serpent," determined to kill "the man of bronze." Doc Savage—Clark Savage Junior—is revealed as a two-meter-tall man of extraordinary physical and intellectual power, trained since childhood in strength, medicine, engineering, geology, law, and chemistry. His five companions arrive at his Manhattan office: Renny (engineer), Johnny Littlejohn (geologist/archaeologist), Long Tom Roberts (electrician), Ham Brooks (lawyer), and Monk Mayfair (chemist). They inform Doc that his father died three weeks earlier under suspicious circumstances, marked by red circular spots on his neck. Doc's safe has been blown open. The group prepares to investigate the suspicious death, hinting at a mystery involving ancient civilizations and murder.