Between Two Worlds: THE TIMES Best Crime Novel of the Year 2024 - Couverture souple

Norek, Olivier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857059246 ISBN 13 : 9780857059246

Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2025

Synopsis

**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024**
**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**
** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**

"A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction" Sunday Times

"The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The Times

Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. A captain in Assad's military police, he's about to be exposed as a covert member of the Free Syrian Army, and he knows exactly what fate awaits him.

His first move is to send his wife and daughter to Libya, where they can find a boat heading for Europe. Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for migrants seeking passage to the fabled Youké.

Bastien Miller, a police lieutenant freshly transferred to the Calais police force, arrives at about the same time. His wife is drowning in grief for her late father and their teenage daughter may never forgive them for the move.

When Adam risks his life to protect a young migrant, the two officers make a deal - information on Adam's family in exchange for intel from the Jungle. Then a body is found in the camp, and the deal becomes an alliance, uniting them in a common cause to do one good deed in a world where vice is a virtue.

Reader Reviews

***** "This is an exceptional book, the best one I've read in 2024 so far and I've read a lot of excellent books this year by some very big name authors"

Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

A standalone crime novel set in the Calais Jungle from the author of the acclaimed Capitaine Coste Investigations and a key writer on Spiral

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacLehose Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857059246
• ISBN 13: 9780857059246
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Hachette Ireland; info@hbgi.ie; ; 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock Road, Castleknock; Dublin 15; D15 XTP3; Irlande