Some of the French maquis I worked with, during the war, could have wiped out the whole family, one after the other, that way."
"Murder in the Gunroom"
Henry Beam Piper
maquis, a Mediterranean scrub tree, grows to about fifteen or twenty feet, can be extremely dense, and is the most frequent ground cover at low elevations.
"Area Handbook for Albania"
Eugene K. Keefe Sarah Jane Elpern William Giloane James M. Moore, Jr. Stephen Peters Eston T. White
This is why-because in Corsica your dead will not leave you alone- -Dominic's brother had to go into the maquis, into the bush on the wild mountain-side, to dodge the gendarmes for the insignificant remainder of his life, and Dominic had charge of his nephew with a mission to make a man of him.
"The Mirror of the Sea"
Joseph Conrad