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Chargement... This is the Night They Come For You (2022)par Robert Goddard
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A complex plot, working around the bloody Algerian fight for independence from France, French police brutality in 1961 and post independence civil war. As always with this author, immaculately researched, full of local colour in Algeria and Paris and knitting a seamless fictional plot around real events. ( ) For Superintendent Taleb, life is just about getting through to retirement. His time in the Algerian police has been busy but corruption means that he no longer really fits in. Then he is asked to partner with an agent from the feared secret service to look into the disappearance of a recently released prisoner. Suddenly Taleb is thrown back into a complex plot dating from the days of Algerian Independence. Meanwhile Suzette has been sent a document purporting to be a confession her father has made about his involvement in the death of a French politician and a missing british woman. All are set on a collision course. I loved Goddard's last book but the quirky nature of that story was definitely missing here. This is more of a straightforward thriller and is incredibly complex to follow. However I did really like the setting and learning about the Algerian war of independence and the behaviour of the French which still has repercussions today. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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