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Olivier Norek served as a humanitarian aid worker in the former Yugoslavia, before embarking on a 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 a million copies in France and won a dozen literary prizes.Norek displays the mastery and assurance of an old hand.
- Bruno Corty, Figaro.
The French crime-writing revelation of the year.
- Barnard Lehut, R.T.L.
The suspense is sustained until the final page. A masterful crime novel.
L'Express.
<p><i>Spiral </i>obsessives will recognise the same gritty northern Paris suburb, Seine-Saint-Denis, with is no-go drug estates, as well as the wearily nonchalant detectives and city bigwigs shepherding their own crooked agendas.</p>
Strong Words
<i>The Lost and the Damned</i> hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. The first 30 pages contain what must be one of the most shocking scenes ever committed to paper. It will make you cry out (for more).
- Mark Sanderson, The Times Crime Book of the Month
This is not conventional crime. Reading this full-throttle piece is a both a troubling and an exhilarating experience.
- Barry Forshaw, Financial Times.