Breaking Point :by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month - The Banlieues Trilogy
Breaking Point :by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month - The Banlieues Trilogy
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Published:
17 August, 2023
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Description
Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller
"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
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780857059727 |
| ISBN10 | 0857059726 |
| Number Of Pages | 400 |
| Item Weight | 280 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 194 x 32 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Quercus Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
The greatest exponent of the policier at work today -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *
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Author's Bio
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.