Between Two Worlds
THE TIMES Best Crime Novel of the Year 2024
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
“The greatest exponent of the policier at work today” - Mark Sanderson, The Times
Undercover police officer Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. He knows it’s a risk and he’s ready for it. First, he sends his wife and daughter to Libya, where they will find boat heading for the Italian coast.
Meanwhile, Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for migrants awaiting passage to the UK.
Bastien Miller, a police lieutenant freshly transf…
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: | 27 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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