LOSER'S CORNER by Antonin Varenne, Frank Wynne (Trans) ( 9780857052285 )

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LOSER'S CORNER

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ISBN 10:

0857052284

ISBN 13:

9780857052285

Publisher:

QUERCUS PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

4 December, 2014

Pages:

304

Translated from:

French

Description:

Boxer George Crozat has racked up thirty-eight victories, 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. Before long, Crozat has unknowingly become a pawn in a very dangerous game.

Synopsis:

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.

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MacLehose Press

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Returnable

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