A riveting novel of political intrigue, set on the Left Bank of Paris From 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 Andre 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...

Paris Noir takes you on a ride through the old medieval center of town with its winding streets, its ghosts, and its secrets buried in history. This is more than an homage to the crime genre, to Melville and Godard, it’s also a lush introduction to the very best in French fiction. Brand-new stories by: Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Marc Villard, Chantal Pelletier, Patrick Pécherot, DOA, Hervé Prudon, Dominique Mainard, Salim Bachi, Jérôme Leroy, Laurent Martin, and Christophe Mercier.

В седьмой выпуск серии вошли повесть • В заколдованном лесу — Буало-Нарсежак • Выстрелы из прошлого — Дидье Дененкс • Страж брату моему — Борис Виан • Убийство в адской долине — Поль Андреотта • Подайте мне Джоконду — Фредерик Дар