Picardie, 1963. A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death. For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travellers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but trawling for any who aren't is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of civil unrest something which terrifies his bosses in the Ministry. And when Rocco is ordered to stay away from one factory where he suspects illegals are employed, it goes against everything he knows. However, his difficulties have barely begun. One of the illegals is a young woman with a small child, on the run from her brutal husband, Samir Farek, an Algerian gangster who has threatened to kill them both. But Farek has another, bigger agenda: to take over as gang lord in Paris.
'Marvellous ... With rare panache, Magson weaves a complicated tale' Crime Squad
Title: Death on the Rive Nord
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Adrian Magson
ISBN 13: 9780749040635
ISBN 10: 0749040637
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Imprint: Allison & Busby
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Crime & mystery
NBS Classification: Crime & Thriller
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 28mm
Weight: 277g