Thierry Dulac is an agent with Interpol.
He is obviously not a spy and has no desire to be anything other than the policeman that he is, especially as he is gifted in the ability to investigate and uncover motives in homicide cases. His presence in this compendium comes not from his occupation but from the cases which are thrown at him which have incredible amounts of international intrigue. Should you mention to him any comparison to an espionage operative, he would look at you with the expression of disdain that he often awards his interrogatees - and let me tell you that he has quite a lot of disdain for them.
He has risen to the impressive position of Inspector in that international policing organization and it is through considerable hard work and an impressive number of successful cases. We are given notice of at least five high profile investigations that he has headed in the last couple of years, each one brought to a very satisfactory conclusion.
When we first meet him in someone else's office, lounging comfortably in that man's desk chair smoking a cigarette, he is described as a "thin, brown-haired man". Moments later, after rising from the chair, putting out the cigarette in the man's favorite saucer, he is less than pleased with what he was hearing from the man. "Dulac was smiling, his large concave frame bent threateningly close". We learn immediately that Dulac does not like sloppy anything, let alone police work. Dulac is a professional who insists others be as well. And considering that things like sabotage and assassinations are often messy and more than occasionally sloppy, Dulac takes considerable exception to them.
Good Lines:
- Thought by a foreigner in Paris, "The French often reminded one of one's non-Frenchness, sometimes subtly, sometimes not".
- Remembered by Dulac of a priest in his youth, "a short man with the vivacity, odor and color of a corpse".