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The Lost and the Damned (Banlieues Trilogy, The) Hardcover – 12 Nov. 2020

by Olivier Norek (Author), Nick Caistor (Translator)

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"The Lost and the Damned 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 Crime Book of the Month

A suspenseful new police procedural from a former French police officer and one of the original writers on the hit series Spiral

A corpse that wakes up on the mortuary slab.

A case of spontaneous human combustion.

There is little by the way of violent crime and petty theft that Capitaine Victor Coste has not encountered in his fifteen years on the St Denis patch - but nothing like this.

Though each crime has a logical explanation, something unusual is afoot all the same, and Coste is about to be dragged out of his comfort zone. Anonymous letters addressed to him personally have begun to arrive, highlighting the fates of two women, invisible victims whose deaths were never explained. Just two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned.

Olivier Norek's first novel draws on all his experience as a police officer in one of France's toughest suburbs - the same experience he drew on as a writer for the hit TV series Spiral.

Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

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304 pages
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English
Publisher

MacLehose Press
Publication date

12 Nov. 2020
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16.2 x 3.4 x 23.8 cm
ISBN-10

0857059629
ISBN-13

978-0857059628
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Publisher : MacLehose Press (12 Nov. 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0857059629
ISBN-13 : 978-0857059628
Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.4 x 23.8 cm

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Norek displays the mastery and assurance of an old hand. -- Bruno Corty ― Figaro.

The French crime-writing revelation of the year. -- Barnard Lehut ― R.T.L.

The suspense is sustained until the final page. A masterful crime novel. ― L'Express.

Spiral obsessives will recognise the same gritty northern Paris suburb, Seine-Saint-Denis, with is no-go drug estates, as well as the wearily nonchalant detectives and city bigwigs shepherding their own crooked agendas.

― Strong Words

The Lost and the Damned hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. The first 30 pages contain what must be one of the most shocking scenes ever committed to paper. It will make you cry out (for more). -- Mark Sanderson ― The Times Crime Book of the Month

This is not conventional crime. Reading this full-throttle piece is a both a troubling and an exhilarating experience. -- Barry Forshaw ― Financial Times.

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Enter the dark heart of Paris.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 November 2020

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Set in the gritty urban sprawl of Paris and written by a former policeman, this novel is bristling with authenticity. I liked Capitaine Victor Coste as a protagonist; fair minded, suitably jaded and brutal when required. Although the opening half or so of the book is firmly along police procedural lines in terms of genre, I wouldn’t necessarily classify this in that category as a whole. There are some diversions but those are for future readers to enjoy.

The Paris portrayed here is very much the one backstage. Behind The City of Light is a dark netherworld and I look forward to book two taking us a step deeper into it.

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Excellent French crime thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2021

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Quite gory ...but an excellent read.

You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral, which can only be a major positive!

Really enjoyed this book and will be looking for more of the same.

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C. J. Howard

For Spiral fans

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2020

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If you like Spiral , you will like this . Tough , gritty and very French Cop .

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For devotees of the BBC4 " Spiral" series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2021

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The gore is a bit gothic, but if you like French crime novels about "les flics" in the Parisienne banlieus , this is right up your street. will be keeping an eye out for other books by this author

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Superb French Crime Trilogy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2020

Olivier Norak was a writer for a TV series some readers might be familiar with, the compulsive gritty French crime show, Spiral. This is his fantastic translated debut trawling in the dark corners of the human soul in the outer Paris district of Seine-St Denis, with its French equivalent of crime ridden council estates, featuring Capitaine Victor Coste, head of the homicide unit, 93 Police Judiciare. In 2011, the police led by Lieutenant Mathias Aubin, discover the body of a junkie who had OD'd in a squat at Les Lilas, the woman had been so badly sexually assaulted that her injuries are devastating. The family of the girl, Camille, have been torn apart by loss and grief and decide not to identify her. Coste has been at St Denis for 15 years, there is nothing in terms of petty and violent crime that he has not seen in his time, and for 10 of those years Aubin has been there with him, there is nobody he trusts more than his deputy.

It is 2012, and Coste finds himself at the derelict warehouses on the banks of the Canal de L'Ourcq where the body of a giant black man has been discovered, apparently shot 3 times elsewhere and badly tortured. There is a disturbing shock coming for Coste and the pathologist, Dr Lea Marquant, when she cuts the victim at the mortuary, the giant comes back to life. This is the first of a series of sensational events, the Zombie coming to life, followed by spectacular headline inducing murders, of spontaneous human combustion, the vampiric draining of the blood, all culminating in a bloody massacre. Coste finds himself caught up in a dark web of police corruption, dirty tricks, hidden political ambitions, and disparate connections, anonymous letters that point him to the erasing of invisible victims, the homeless, addicts, with no families, from the crime figures. The killer is a troubled and tortured figure hellbent on revenge that takes in a exclusive, invitation only club of a powerful cabal of masked men engaging in sadistic sexual depravity with nothing to stop them going to unspeakable extremes.

Coste loses Aubin as he moves on, only for him to be replaced by the disreputable Lucien Malbert, and a rookie joins the team, Johanna De Ritter, who finds herself facing a baptism of fire that sees her forge her place in the team of Lieutenant Ronan Scaglia and Sam Dorfrey. As the pressure on Coste grows, he will do anything to protect his team, but they are just as determined to be there for him. Coste is an interesting figure with his sparsely furnished home, feeling himself compromised by an old friend, suffering the consequences of the trauma of losing a girlfriend, and reluctant ever since to get involved with another woman. This is a hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact, Norek intends it to be the first of a trilogy, and I really cannot wait for the next upcoming book. Many thanks to Quercus for an ARC.

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David Harris

Really gritty, really good crime novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2021

I'm grateful to the publisher for an advance e-copy of The Lost and the Damned via NetGalley to consider for review.

Content warning: this book does depict some very unpleasant events, both instances of torture and sexual assault. I don't describe these in my review below.

The Lost and the Damned is an explosive police procedural/ thriller, set in Seine-Saint-Denis, one of the scuzzy northern outskirts of Paris. The place is all tower blocks, dereliction and the camps of refugees and outcasts. It's not a tourist district or a smart shopping quarter.

Here, Capitaine Victor Coste is about to lose one of his most experienced officers, fleeing the city for a quieter life in the country, and to gain a new recruit in his place. This happens just as a perplexing series of murders begins - murders with a hint of the supernatural, murders that seem staged, with the Press informed of every detail. At the same time, Coste starts to receive anonymous letters, pointing to something rotten in his own department.

I loved this book - the characters, the seedy atmosphere, the air of cynicism. Coste is an honest cop, as these things go, but he's living in a very dirty world and it's impossible to pretend that all is well. Sometimes corners have to be cut. But we know - Norek uses several viewpoints in this book - that Coste and his team are crossing paths with monsters whose depravity would astound even him, world-weary detective or not. Stumbling around in the same maze are a crusading journalist and a hard-bitten PI. Each has fragments of the story, but very different interests.

It's an enjoyable book on several levels.

There is the unfolding of the devilish events - events Norek takes his own good time to trace to their roots. There is the depiction of Coste and his team (in which I include pathologist Dr Léa Marquant, who clearly fancies the pants off him only he doesn't realise). They are real characters with foibles and a true sense of a shared history. Introducing them through the arrival of Johanna, the new member, gives us an outsider's view of the squad on which Norek then builds with deeper insights.

Also vividly portrayed is Seine-Saint-Denis - almost a character in its own right, lovingly (if that is the world - it's a grim place) described and explored. The cop's-eye view (Norek is a former police officer) is unsentimental, but still manages to be both empathetic to the the plight of those who wash up there and knowing of the political shenanigans that make that plight worse.

Re-reading that last paragraph you might doubt my use of the word "enjoyable". This isn't, as I have said, "nice" Paris, "tourist" Paris, "smart" Paris. But it feels real, it tells a truly gripping story and it makes you care about the people there.

Nick Caistor's translation is open, readable and strikes a good balance, I think, between retaining the sense (for an English reader) that this is a book about a foreign and different place and making the text familiar and readable.

I'm very glad this is the start of a trilogy, I am looking forward to meeting Capitaine Victor Coste and his team again.

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