Lorraine Connection (Paperback)

by Dominique Manotti (Author) "A room enclosed by four grey sheet-metal walls, bisected by a conveyor belt carrying two rows of television screens and their cathode ray tubes, under..." (more)

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Arcadia Books (April 1 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1905147619
ISBN-13: 978-1905147618
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 223 g
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'Bleak, transgressive, sexy and quite literally unputdownable. They're so seedy, very, very French (in a good way), often very funny and so tightly plotted that you can read them in an evening. And Arcadia's translations have been brilliant. It's a joy...devouring such exuberant, taut and engrossing crime writing' - Bookseller '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 extraordinary vivid crime novel' - JOAN SMITH, Books of the Year, Independent, on Rough Trade 'Gets under the skin in a way that has rarely been so compelling, and certainly never sexier' -Cary Gee, Tribune. 'Seamlessly integrates a fine crime story with an equally convincing grip on the character on the northern landscape' -Judges of the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award

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When a cathode ray tube factory in a small French town is hit first by a strike and then by a suspicious fire, the battle for the takeover of the plant’s beleaguered parent company heats up. The Lorraine factory is at the center of a strategic battle being played out in Paris, Brussels, and Asia for the takeover of the ailing state-owned electronics giant Thomson. Accusations of foul play fly, and rival contender Alcatel calls in its intrepid head of security Charles Montoya to investigate. He soon uncovers explosive revelations and a trail of murders, dirty tricks, blackmail, and corporate malfeasance.

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