Dan Franck is the author of some thirty books, including “The separation“(Renaudot Prize 1991), “Script», «The Flight of the Mona Lisa“, the trilogy “Bohemian Time” and “A century of lovewith Enki Bilal. He has also written screenplays for film and television. In 1985, he created with Jean Vautrin the character of Boro, reporter photographer, hero of eight volumes. Seven years after the disappearance of his sidekick, Dan Franck publishes the ninth adventure under the title “Boro, East-West“.
“Blèmia Borowicz, known as “Boro”, a photojournalist, originally from Hungary, came to Paris in search of a land of asylum and freedom. He has the insolence of bohemianism and the casual elegance of a Fitzgeraldian hero of Central Europe. Armed with his legendary cane and Leica, he scraps with libertarian ardor against the abuses and injustices of the world. The unreasonableness of love, the chances of action and the fury of History lead him always towards an exceptional destiny.
Spring 1960. Bruised by the entry of Soviet tanks into his country, Boro answered the call of the Mossad: he is in Argentina on the trail of a Nazi executioner on the run. Back in Paris, he joined the luggage carriers in the clandestine apartments where the support networks for the Algerian FLN met. He arrived in Berlin on the night of August 12 to 13, 1961, when the wall of shame was erected.
There he will save the first fugitives who escaped through the tunnels as well as a young German pianist, an internationally renowned virtuoso, trapped in the barbed wire of the Cold War. (Presentation of Fayard editions / Grasset).