Date 10 January 2019
Pages 544
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 21.00
EAN 9782072787560
Publisher Website www.gallimard.fr

Requiem for a Republic

Publisher Gallimard
Keywords Decolonization
A very promising and solidly researched first novel that incisively revisits a powerful episode of the end of the French colonial empire and its painful heritage.

Autumn 1959. The elimination of an Algerian attorney with ties to the FLN turns into a bloodbath. His entire family is decimated. Antoine Carrega (former Corsican resistance fighter with connections to organized crime), Sirius Volkstrom (former Nazi collaborator who carried out Prefect Maurice Papon’s dirty work), and Luc Blanchard (a young, naïve cop) are all searching for the assassin. This manhunt, whose stakes far exceed their comprehension, will lead these three men with radically opposed convictions and interests to cross paths and join forces despite themselves.

  • Awards Prix Quai du Polar 202
  • As of: September 2021