Translatedftom the French by John Brownjohn

"This is 'economic horror' - an acid and brilliant version ... a new race of thrillers" Marie-Francoise Leclère, Point

"Your career profile looks to be of interest to US. Would you please get in touch?"

Jerome Carceville finds it impossible to resist such an e-mail, especially when the invitation comes from De Wavre International, one of the top head-hunting organisations in the world. After undergoing a variety of interviews and tests, he is selected for the decisive examination. The fifteen talented finalists arrive at a hotel on an island in the middle of an Alpine lake. Only two of them have any realistic chance of the job, and when Del Rieco, the "games master", informs them that the nature of the contest is simulated economic warfare and that competitors must be eliminated, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary recruitment drive. Ingenious and strikingly contemporary, Michel Crespy has created a brand new genre, the Human Resources Thriller.

"A breathless and tough tale, a political thriller as black as Spanish coffee and as fascinating and bloody as a bullfight. This is a warning, but first of all and most warmly, a recommendation" Politiken

Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film, but now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that the hunters will kill to get? Lime is a paparazzo, based in Madrid. For more than 2o years he has stalked and captured the rich and famous on film, making a fortune from exposing their secrets - the more salacious the image, the bigger the fee. But his wife and child have changed his life, and now he dreams of doing a job that his daughter can be proud of him doing.
Then he goes on a routine assignment - a Spanish minister out sailing with his mistress - and his world is suddenly turned upside down. A fire destroys his home, but not all of his photographs, and Lime sets out to discover a motive and finds himself caught in the complex and terrifying world of international terrorism.

Patricia Clancy (Translator)

This self-contained sequel to "The Murdered House" ranges over half a century. It concerns the enigmatic Seraphin Monge who, having avenged the horrific murder of his family, has vanished as abruptly as he appeared. But how to explain the ghostly visions and declared sightings of him?

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Charles Alexander, a young man groomed from birth by his mother to be a Baptist minister, accidentally witnesses the murders. The killer is Hope Kirby, World War II hero, member of a large mountain clan of farmers, who has discovered his wife's infidelity. Although Kirby's code of honor requires that he exact vengeance, it won't allow him to kill an innocent bystander, so Charles goes free, promising not to tell what he's seen. But Charles does tell, and we watch, fascinated, as a trial, an appeal, and a new terror unleashed on the countryside draw the entire county into the action. An Affair of Honor is the story of a crime - a crime with so many unforeseeable repercussions and nuances that it will take five decades to untangle. It is the story of a society's transformation at mid-century, the transformation on every level - spiritual, sexual, racial and political. For the scope of the narrative and the power of the prose, this great novel may be compared with Faulkner and Dostoevsky.