Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre
A darkly compelling workplace thriller from the master of French Noir
A really excellent suspense novelist * Stephen King *
For noir to be good, one must plunge one's head underwater and come out just shy of drowningPierre Lemaitre has dared everything here. * Le Parisien *
Lemaitre takes his sardonic skills to new heights with this dark, loopy thriller, which portrays the modern workplace as the last place a displaced soul would ever want to be. * Kirkus Reviews *
This is a fine literary thriller told in a wry, educated style with sly references to everybody from Hawthorne to Mailer. * Booklist *
A literary thriller whose plot twists, turns, backtracks, and loops like a medieval maze until one despairs of ever finding a way to a resolution. It is a puzzle palace, a funhouse of deception, where nothing and no one is what one first believes. * New York Journal of Books *
Pierre Lemaitre's Inhuman Resources is further proof that he has replaced Fred Vargas as the premier French crime writer . . . As ever with Lemaitre, this is exhilarating stuff. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. *
For noir to be good, one must plunge one's head underwater and come out just shy of drowningPierre Lemaitre has dared everything here. * Le Parisien *
Lemaitre takes his sardonic skills to new heights with this dark, loopy thriller, which portrays the modern workplace as the last place a displaced soul would ever want to be. * Kirkus Reviews *
This is a fine literary thriller told in a wry, educated style with sly references to everybody from Hawthorne to Mailer. * Booklist *
A literary thriller whose plot twists, turns, backtracks, and loops like a medieval maze until one despairs of ever finding a way to a resolution. It is a puzzle palace, a funhouse of deception, where nothing and no one is what one first believes. * New York Journal of Books *
Pierre Lemaitre's Inhuman Resources is further proof that he has replaced Fred Vargas as the premier French crime writer . . . As ever with Lemaitre, this is exhilarating stuff. -- Barry Forshaw * Guardian. *
Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex. In 2013 his novel Au revoir là-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857059901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857059904 |
| Title | Inhuman Resources |
| Author | Pierre Lemaitre |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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