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Turf Wars: by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month(The Banlieues Trilogy)

Turf Wars: by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month(The Banlieues Trilogy)


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A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spiral "Hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted . . . It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times on The Lost and the Damned Since Capitaine Coste and his team's last case, calm appears to have returned to the SDPJ93 - but not for long. The summary execution of three young dealers - one them shot in the head in full view of a police surveillance team - is the signal for hell to be unleashed in the suburb of Seine-Saint Denis. Cocaine stashed in pensioners' apartments; a psychopathic gang leader of just thirteen at large among the high rises; a cult militia recruited from the boxing clubs run by the council; a deputy mayor found tortured to death in his own home. And, if all this wasn't enough to contend with, when a police intervention in a local estate fuels the residents' resentment towards authority, Coste finds himself faced with an army of merciless thugs capable of enacting a genuine revolution. Once again, Norek draws on all his experience as a police officer in one of France's toughest suburbs - the same experience he drew on as a writer for the hit TV series Spiral - making Turf Wars the most authentic crime novel you'll read all year. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

About the Author :
Olivier Norek served as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia, before embarking on a 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 a million copies in France and won a dozen literary prizes.

Review :
Fans of the French TV series Spiral (with its unvarnished vision of urban crime) will find Olivier Norek's Turf Wars a pungent addition to his Banlieues Trilogy . . . As bracingly authentic as its predecessor. Former cop Olivier Norek was one of the writers on the crime drama Spiral . . . there's no denying the visceral excitement and latent compassion of this policier par excellence Norek served in the Seine-Saint-Denis Police Judiciaire for eighteen years and everything he writes is thrilling. This is a prime example of crime fiction as social history, but it is far more gripping - and moving - than any work of history France makes moody crime films and TV, and Norek's latest Euro bestseller sizzles with similar noir atmosphere Dark, gripping and exciting . . . There is not only a great sense of place but also of characterisation You will have to go a long way to find a better hard-boiled policier


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857059673
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: MacLehose Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: The Banlieues Trilogy
  • ISBN-10: 085705967X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month


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