Between Two Worlds by Olivier Norek - ISBN: 9780857059222
Paperback
Undercover cop’s desperate escape leads to murder in migrant camp.

Between Two Worlds

THE TIMES Best Crime Novel of the Year 2024

  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2024

Summary

“The greatest exponent of the policier at work today” - Mark Sanderson, The Times

Undercover police officer Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. He knows it’s a risk and he’s ready for it. First, he sends his wife and daughter to Libya, where they will find boat heading for the Italian coast.

Meanwhile, Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for migrants awaiting passage to the UK.

Bastien Miller, a police lieutenant freshly transf…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857059222
ISBN-10:085705922X
Author:Olivier Norek
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:27 August 2024
Weight:390g
Dimensions:232mm x 152mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Extraordinary … a police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction, drawing on Norek’s experience during 18 years in the French force – Joan Smith * The Times *Diamond-hard, unrelenting Gallic crime fiction with a telling strand of social history – Barry Forshaw * Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2024 *My expectations were more than met … Vivid scene-setting and a fine translation by Nick Caistor keep the narrative flowing quickly in this absorbing, topical story * Financial Times *

About The Author

Olivier Norek

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

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