Blood-Red Rivers - Couverture rigide

Grange, J C

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1860466591 ISBN 13 : 9781860466595

Editeur : The Harvill Press, 1999

Synopsis

Pierre Niemans is the ex-golden boy of the Parisian police commando squad but his brutal methods of dealing with suspects are being investigated by his superiors. Under a cloud, he is sent to the university town of Guernon in the French Alps. In a fissure of a glacier outside the town a horrifying discovery has been made a mutilated and naked corpse and the enigmatic message, Blood-Red Rivers. Niemans joins forces with Karim Abdouf, a young ruffian turned maverick police inspector, who has arrived in Guernon on an apparently unrelated investigation into the desecration of a child s tomb. Another body is found frozen in the glacier. Is this the work of a satanic sect or simply of enraged killers? In Jean-Christophe Grange s exceptional suspense novel, Niemans unravels the depths of the past and finds his way to a truth beyond the realms of the imaginable.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Grange has turned out a rip-roaring shocker that begins smashingly; skirts the spooky supernatural amid graveyards, ruins, wild landscapes and night-scapes for 300 gripping pages; and at last collapses into the macabre 18th century fantasies of Maturin and Mrs. Radcliffe." (Eugen Weber The Los Angeles Times)

"I would defy any reader not to be on the edge of his seat." (Simon Shaw The Mail on Sunday)

"At 3 a.m. I crept into my bed completely unnerved: "Blood-RedRivers" turned out to be one of those compulsive reads, where you keep promising yourself you'll close the book after just one more chapter but find yourself helplessly turning pages until there are no more." (Lisa Oberteuffer The Albuquerque Journal)

"Smart and intense, Blood RedRiverswill have you turning pages at a furious clip." (Peter Mergendahl Denver Rocky Mountain News)

Présentation de l'éditeur

In a world of knife-edge glaciers a hideous crime leads two maverick detectives to confront the limits of human evil. A corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. It has been horribly mutilated. The brilliant but violent ex-commando Pierre Niémans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to lead the investigation. Meanwhile, in a town in south-west France, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second baby is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in the search for their killers, a trail that embroils them in the mysterious cult of the blood red rivers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Harvill Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1860466591
• ISBN 13: 9781860466595
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible