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Breaking Point: by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month
Hardback
Main Details
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Breaking Point: by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Olivier Norek
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Translated by Nick Caistor
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Series | The Banlieues Trilogy |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:400 | Dimensions(mm): Height 238,Width 162 |
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Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780857059703
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Classifications | Dewey:843.92 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Quercus Publishing
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Imprint |
MacLehose Press
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NZ Release Date |
14 February 2023 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller "The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The Times "Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FT When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread - his resignation letter parked in his superior's desk draw - he is plunged into his most testing ordeal yet. A raid on the vault at the Bobigny law courts. Five vital pieces of evidence swiped. Four men who can no longer be held: an armed robber, a foreign legionnaire, a kidnapper and a paedophile. But what is the connection between them? With Coste and his team at a loss, it's the moral outrage of another criminal that will throw up a lead: one they'll follow to their breaking point - and beyond. What readers are saying about Olivier Norek You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral, which can only be a major positive! A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact. A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark. I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor
Author Biography
Olivier Norek served as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia, before embarking on an eighteen-year career in the French police, rising to the rank of capitaine in the Seine-Saint-Denis Police Judiciare. He has written six crime novels, which have sold more than a million copies in France and won a dozen literary prizes.
ReviewsThe greatest exponent of the policier at work today -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *
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