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Book SynopsisA second blistering crime novel set in France''s most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spiral
Hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted . . . It will make you cry out (for more) - Mark Sanderson, The Times on The Lost and the Damned
The summary execution of three dealers - one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team - is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France''s most notorious suburb.
Now there''s a new kingpin in charge, using his ruthless teenage enforcer to assert an iron grip on his territory. And the local mayor, no stranger to the criminal underworld, is willing to make a pact with the devil if it will secure her a third term.
Enter Capitaine Coste and his team, ready to break the rules to prevent the drugs squad from throwing an elderly stash-minder to the l
Trade Review
Fans of the French TV series Spiral (with its unvarnished vision of urban crime) will find Olivier Norek's Turf Wars a pungent addition to his Banlieues Trilogy . . . As bracingly authentic as its predecessor. -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times *
Former cop Olivier Norek was one of the writers on the crime drama Spiral . . . there's no denying the visceral excitement and latent compassion of this policier par excellence
-- Mark Sanderson * The Times *
Norek served in the Seine-Saint-Denis Police Judiciaire for eighteen years and everything he writes is thrilling. This is a prime example of crime fiction as social history, but it is far more gripping - and moving - than any work of history * Literary Review *
France makes moody crime films and TV, and Norek's latest Euro bestseller sizzles with similar noir atmosphere
* Peterborough Telegraph *
Dark, gripping and exciting . . . There is not only a great sense of place but also of characterisation
* Shots Magazine *
You will have to go a long way to find a better hard-boiled
policier * Mark Ripley Books of the Month *
