First Pages #2: A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm (2022)

It’s lunchtime and the tables in the dining room are filling up. The waiters in their smart black suits and bow ties are looking professional, busy — and distinctly French — as they scurry about handing out menus, taking orders, fielding questions and finally disappearing, like assassins, or monks, through the small swinging door at the back of the dini…