Review
"'Manotti has Ellroy's gift for complex plotting, but she has a grip on the economics, politics and social history which marks her as special... good generic crime fiction, with le flair in abundance' - TLS 'The novel I liked most this year. Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events - the struggle by foreign workers in 1980 to get legal status - as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel' - Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent 'A splendid neo-realistic tale of everyday bleakness and transgression set in the seedy underworld of Paris. You can smell the Gitanes and pastis fumes of the real France' - Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian"
Product Description
A group of school friends from the heyday of 1968 France take center stage in this racy account of horse racing, public corruption, and criminal intent. Agathe Renourd and her protégé, Nicolas Berger, are in charge of the communications network of a major European insurance consortium. Christian Deluc has become a council member at the Elysée Palace, and Amelie raises thoroughbreds. Now, in 1989, their paths cross in an unexpected fashion as events begin to spiral out of control. Racehorses die under mysterious circumstances; unimaginable quantities of cocaine appear at Parisian parties; and the dashing Nicolas Berger meets a violent end when a bomb explodes in his car. The search for resolution produces a dark ride filled with political intrigue and mystery.
