James Ellroy, Arnaldur Indridason, Deon Meyer, Paula Hawkins, Leyle Adenle, Valerio Varesi, Atta Locke, Eva Björg ægisdóttir, Alask Nore, Cédric Sire, Harold Cobert, Nicolas Lebel, Caryl Férey, Niko Tackian, Bernard Minier, Marc Levy, Olivier Norek, Franck Thilliez, Céline Denjean… are among the 125 guests at the Quais du Polar festival, in Lyon, from April 4 to 6, and will certainly be entitled to the honors of the press. For our part, we have chosen two less known, but just as deserving authors.
Thus the Belgian Jeremiah Claes who, afterwards, The watchmaker In 2024, enchanted its readers with SOBLANE commander (EHO), a societal and humanist thriller, in touch with the tragedy of refugees and the progression of the extreme right in the Alpes-Maritimes. Claes does not go to a dead hand: 42 calcined corpses run aground on the beach of Cannes-La Bocca, while a group identity, created by the local deputy, niece of a certain Marie-Louise Prigent, president of the patriotic rally, multiplies the commandos against homos, migrants, family plannings, etc. But his gauge, his characters – Bernard Solane, a retired Anar cop and a fierce appetite, Victor Daumergue, his friend and former chef, Jasmine, the activist of Breil -sur -Roya, the young Moussa, the only survivor migrant – and his twists and turns are most delectable, it is true that Claes is also a cavist. We are thus sailing from Cannes to Nice, from the Roya Valley to Ventimille and Gourdon (the village of the author’s grandmother), called “the eagle nest” with its rocky piton at an altitude of 800 meters, and we are witnessing the worst carnages as the sweetest moments.
The publisher and writer Jacques Baudouin is a specialist in the Asian world and gives himself to heart with his spy story mixing China, the Vatican and the DGSE. Nick Fergus, former underground of French secret services exiled in Canada, is reactivated to convey Mgr Liu, bishop of the Chinese clandestine church, from Vancouver to Paris, after his exfiltration of the Middle Empire. It is that the latter has important revelations on the danger for the Catholic community of the agreement that the Pope is about to sign with Beijing. With Florence, her mistress, also charming and wealthy businesswoman, Fergus accomplishes his mission, and finds his former chiefs, Kircher, the boss of the annex, an ultra -secret and brax unit, the DG of the DGSE. Devilishly interested in this possible blast, the President of the Republic also appears in these thrilling pages, but nothing has yet been played, Mgr Liu being kidnap in Rome while the Head of State suddenly decides to stop the whole operation. With The spy and the cardinal (New world, composure collection), Jacques Baudouin keeps us in suspense, until the amazing outcome.