‘Hero’ Inspector Fabio Montale, has a fondness for the company of women, loves chilled Cassis and Thelonius Monk, Lagavulin and Joseph Conrad. Working mainly in the high-rise suburbs of Marseilles, he’s sometimes conscious that “"it was easier to be a policeman than a criminal”" and is continually aware, like his creator, of the local political realities that will always leave him at the sharp end of the stick.
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