Between Two Worlds
the times best crime novel of the year 2024
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2024
Summary
Between Two Worlds: A Taut Thriller of Survival and Justice
Undercover police officer Adam Sirkis must escape Syria. He’s prepared for the danger, sending his wife and daughter ahead to Libya, hoping they can find a boat to Italy.
Meanwhile, Adam finds himself in the Calais Jungle, the notorious migrant camp in France, awaiting passage to the UK.
Lieutenant Bastien Miller, new to the Calais police, arrives at the same time. He’s dealing with his own struggles: a depr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857059222 |
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| ISBN-10: | 085705922X |
| Author: | Olivier Norek |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 390g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Extraordinary … a police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction, drawing on Norek’s experience during 18 years in the French force – Joan Smith * The Times *Diamond-hard, unrelenting Gallic crime fiction with a telling strand of social history – Barry Forshaw * Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2024 *My expectations were more than met … Vivid scene-setting and a fine translation by Nick Caistor keep the narrative flowing quickly in this absorbing, topical story * Financial Times *
About The Author
Olivier Norek
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.
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