Synopses & Reviews
A riveting novel of political intrigue, set on the Left Bank of ParisFrom France’s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country’s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack.
When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance private eye Gabriel Lecouvreur takes on the case. The police consider it a robbery gone wrong, but Lecouvreur, a great reader who admires Sloga’s books, thinks the matter runs deeper than that.
And as he looks into it further, he discovers that Sloga had not in fact quit writing after he was dropped by his prestigious publishing house for his increasingly provocative novels. Instead, Sloga was at work on an explosive book that had led him into extremist political circles . . . until someone put a stop to it.
Steeped in the real Paris, where graffiti, squats, and skinheads dominate the streets, Didier Daeninckx’s Nazis in the Metro is a vivid portrait of a side of the city few foreigners see, wrapped in an utterly gripping mystery.
About the Author
Didier Daeninckx, France’s leading crime novelist, has written more than forty books. His novel
Murder in Memoriam forced the French government to try Nazi collaborators, which led to a conviction of collaborator Paul Touvier to life imprisonment and for President François Mitterrand to declare July 16 a day of national reflection on fascism and racism in France. He is also the author of
A Very Profitable War. Also a journalist and an author of literary fiction, he won the 2012 Prix Goncourt for his book
L’espoir en contrabande.
Anna Moschovakis is the translator of Albert Cossery’s The Jokers and Georges Simenon’s The Engagement, among other books. She is also a poet and an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.