Synopsis
A Belgian structural engineer walks the perimeter of the Federal Reserve Building in New York. Twice. He is not there to admire it.
He is there because somewhere in the sub-basement vault, behind a cryptographic lock, is a ledger in his dead wife's handwriting — evidence of the financial architecture that funded the Rwandan genocide. Evidence that has waited thirty years for someone who knew how she thought.
Beside him is Sandrine: twenty-two years younger, Rwandan-born, a survivor who rebuilt herself from precision when everything else was taken. Together they have forty-one seconds — a gap in the building's security grid, a flaw so human in its origin that no one thought to correct it.
The Forty-One Seconds is a heist novel that refuses to behave like one. Told in the measured voice of a man who has spent a lifetime assessing what structures will hold and which promises will break, it is a story about grief, complicity, and what it costs to carry the weight of an unanswered crime — and what it finally costs to put it down.
For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, John le Carré, and Hanya Yanagihara.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A Belgian structural engineer walks the perimeter of the Federal Reserve Building in New York. Twice. He is not there to admire it. He is there because somewhere in the sub-basement vault, behind a cryptographic lock, is a ledger in his dead wife's handwriting - evidence of the financial architecture that funded the Rwandan genocide. Evidence that has waited thirty years for someone who knew how she thought. Beside him is Sandrine: twenty-two years younger, Rwandan-born, a survivor who rebuilt herself from precision when everything else was taken. Together they have forty-one seconds - a gap in the building's security grid, a flaw so human in its origin that no one thought to correct it. The Forty-One Seconds is a heist novel that refuses to behave like one. Told in the measured voice of a man who has spent a lifetime assessing what structures will hold and which promises will break, it is a story about grief, complicity, and what it costs to carry the weight of an unanswered crime - and what it finally costs to put it down. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, John le Carre, and Hanya Yanagihara. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798252777993
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