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Rough Trade (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti; Translated by Elfreda Powell, Margaret Crosland
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Discovery Miles 2 340
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This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of
sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One
spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop.
Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is
uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including
some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris
- the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits,
police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer
and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also
Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale
of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches
nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first
novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year
by the French Crime Writers Association.
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Escape (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti, Ros Schwartz; Translated by Amanda Hopkinson, Ros Schwartz
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It's 1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a
rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first
Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery - under
suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the manhunt launched by
Interpol, the second prisoner, Filippo, returns to Paris where he
becomes a security guard. He spends his nights writing the story of
a Red Brigadier, as recounted to him in prison by Carlo. His
landlady Cristina finds him a publisher and the book becomes a
bestseller. Filippo, carefully coached by his publishers press
office, steadfastly refuses to own the story, insisting that all
his stories are fiction and that this is a work of imagination. The
public don t buy it, neither do the police, and dogged
investigations begin to produce the reasons why. Ultimately Filippo
cannot escape his fate: that of a man with an assumed identity that
carries far greater risks than his own.
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Affairs of State (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti; Translated by Amanda Hopkinson, Ros Schwartz
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R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
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From the winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award
2008. Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and
corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite
international client is found murdered in an underground garage; a
plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the
skies over Turkey, and the president's closest advisor Bornard,
head of a controversial Elyse security unit, manipulates the system
with consummate ease - and illegality. Until the day when rookie
investigator Noria Ghozali determines to untangle the threads which
bind these events together. In doing so she penetrates the Elyse's
innermost system, confronts the workings of money and corruption
within government, and in the process is forced to combat the
institutional - and overt - racism which repeatedly stalls her.
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Lorraine Connection (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti; Translated by Amanda Hopkinson, Ros Schwartz
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Discovery Miles 2 300
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The players in this deadly-serious game of Monopoly will stop at
nothing. In Pondange, Lorraine, the Korean Daewoo group
manufactures cathode ray tubes. Working conditions are abysmal, but
as it's the only source of employment in this bleak former iron and
steel-manufacturing region, the workers daren't protest. Until a
strike breaks out, and there's a fire at the factory. But is it an
accident? The Pondange factory is at the centre of a strategic
battle being played out in Paris, Brussels and Asia for the
takeover of the ailing state-owed electronic giant, Thomson.
Unexpectedly the Matra-Daewoo alliance wins the bid. Rival
contender Alcatel believes there's foul play involved and brings in
the big guns led by its head of security service. Intrepid private
cop Charles Montoya is called to Lorraine to investigate, and
explosive revelations follow - dirty tricks, blackmail and murder.
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