Research Catalog

Title

Loser's corner / Antonin Varenne ; translated by Frank Wynne.

Author

Varenne, Antonin, 1973-

Publication

London : MacLehose Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wynne, Frank

Description

ix, 292 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"[It's] 2008. George 'The Wall' Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories (twenty-three of them by knock-out), eight defeats, and an empty bank account. Finally ready to hang up the gloves and focus on his career as a police officer, his chief concern is how to fund his prostitution habit. When a shady bouncer offers him a photograph, an address and a chance to finally turn a profit with his fists, the temptation is irresistible. Before long the money is flowing, but Crozat has unknowingly become a pawn in a very dangerous game. Powerful forces are using his brutality to keep their own secrets, and Crozat teeters on the precipice of an abyss that stretches fifty years into the past, to the darkest chapter of France's colonial history. Switching effortlessly between past and present, and drawing on his own father's experience of the Algerian War, Antonin Varenne's darkly personal thriller shines a light on corruption, torture, conspiracy and revenge."--

Subject

• Police > Paris > Fiction
• Boxers > France > Fiction
• Organized crime > Paris > Fiction
• Organized crime > Algeria > Fiction
• Corruption > Fiction
• Revenge > Fiction
• Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962 > Fiction
• Paris (France) > Fiction

Genre/Form

Thrillers (Fiction)

Note

• Translated from the French.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780857052278 (hbk.)
• 0857052276 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 892869521
• SCSB-10705524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library