"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have
read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times "A really
excellent suspense novelist" Stephen King The second volume of
Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars
trilogy In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the
funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter,
Madeleine, is poised to take over his financial empire (although,
unfortunately, she knows next to nothing about banking). More
unfortunately still, when Madeleine's seven-year-old son, Paul,
tumbles from a second floor window of the Pericourt mansion on the
day of his grandfather's funeral, and suffers life-changing
injuries, his fall sets off a chain of events that will reduce
Madeleine to destitution and ruin in a matter of months. Using all
her reserves of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and a burning desire
for retribution, Madeleine sets about rebuilding her life. She will
be helped by an ex-Communist fixer, a Polish nurse who doesn't
speak a word of French, a brainless petty criminal with a talent
for sabotage, an exiled German Jewish chemist, a very expensive
forger, an opera singer with a handy flair for theatrics, and her
own son with ideas for a creative new business to take Paris by
storm. A brilliant, imaginative, free-falling caper through
between-the-wars Paris, and a portrait of Europe on the edge of
disaster. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne With the
support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union From
the reviews for The Great Swindle "The most purely enjoyable book
I've read this year" Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph "The vast
sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary
characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac.
Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive" Marcel Berlins, The
Times
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