Every accented character in the book has simply been erased for the Kindle edition. Since there are many such characters, there being many phrases in French and other languages, part of the author's approach for building atmosphere, this indicates a certain carelessness on the part of the editors. In fact a complete lack of quality control.For example, the word "francais" (with a cedilla under the 'c') becomes, in this edition, "franais".I have got used to seeing errors in Kindle editions, but this is the worst so far. My rating has nothing to do with the quality of the writing, which seems to be great. Just the way that this Kindle edition has been prepared.Come on, Amazon. Do better!