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FRANKFURT

2014

MASQUEPOCHE

LA ROUTE

DE SANTA ANNASerge Brussolo

BRUSSOLO INÉDIT

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ASH BLONDBy Eric ParadisiBlond cendré

A heartbreaking story, an ode to love and life.

Alba and Maurizio met in Rome during the war. She was a law student and un-derground resistant. He was a Jewish hairdresser in the ghetto and took refuge in Alba’s apartment after the famous mass round-up and arrest of Jews in October 1943. Every Sun-day, Maurizio took to trimming Alba’s ash blond hair. He worshiped her hair as much as he worshiped her. In the spring, they were captured by the Nazis. Alba was incarcerated, Maurizio was deported to Auschwitz. He survived by becoming the barber of his barracks but he never forgot Alba. Time passes. During an endless and tragic January evening, Flor, Maurizio’s granddaughter, recounts this story to her fiancé exactly as her grandfather told it to her. She hopes the man she loves will find Alba’s courage and the strength to endure Flor’s absence.

Eric Paradisi is a screenwriter and novelist. He is the author of La peau des autres and Sé-quelles ordinaires (Gallimard, 2005, 2007) as well as Un baiser sous X and En retard sur la vie (Fayard, 2010, 2012).

“I am telling you: this book will get a prize next fall – Goncourt, Interallié, or Médi-cis… It deserves a prize because it is so beautiful and so strong, poetic and tragic at the same time.” Pierre de Vilno, Europe 1

RENTRÉE LITTÉRAIRE

205 pagesSeptember 2014

ANY RESEMBLANCE WITH THE FATHERby Franck CourtèsToute ressemblance avec le père

How does one rid oneself of the ghosts of the past?

“When I was my son’s age, one evening I climbed up on top of a hay bale near the edge of a plateau overlooking the Valley of the Ourcq. Night was approaching. Clouds were rolling in bringing a chill to the air. In front of me, brown earth, dark woods, the wind at my back, the contours of happiness, the cardinal points of an imaginary compass. I was a crystal of a boy.”

Three principal characters, a mother and her two children, Mathis and Vinciane, are trying to survive the accidental death of Jacques. Mireille has accepted her destiny to be the inconsolable widow of a magnified hero and Vinciane travels the world to forget. As for Mathis, prisoner of the paternal legacy, he has chosen to lose himself in a game of endless seduction. All three struggle while the ghost of Jacques lingers on, a ghost who incarnates the fantasies and guilt of all. But sooner or later they must make peace with themselves and the past so that the future has a chance.

Franck Courtès is a photographer. His first book, Autorisation de pratiquer la course à pied (Lattès, 2013), received the Prix SGDL du Premier Recueil de Nouvelles and was nomina-ted for Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle.

“Definitely a page-turner. Franck Courtès captivates the reader by immersing him in the eternal contradiction of men, ever torn between two compulsions – Eros and Thanatos.” Lire

Rights sold in Italy

(Longanesi)

390 pagesSeptember 2014

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RENTRÉE LITTÉRAIRE

360 pagesAugust 2014

WE ONLY SAW HAPPINESSby Grégoire DelacourtOn ne voyait que le bonheur

“A life, it was my job to know, was worth between forty and fifty thousand dollars. A life; the cervix finally dilated at 10 centimeters, panting breaths, birth, blood, tears, joy, pain, the first bath, the first teeth, the first steps, the first words, a tumble from a bike, braces, fear of teta-nus, jokes, cousins, vacations, buddies, girls, cheating, the good deeds one does, the desire to change the world.Between forty and fifty thousand dollars if you get run over.Thirty or thirty-five thousand if you are a child.A little over one hundred and twenty thousand if you are in a plane that crashes with two hun-dred and twenty-seven other souls.How much are our lives worth?”

As, day after day, an insurance agent evaluates and indemnifies other lives, he begins to wonder what his own life is worth and takes us to the most intimate corners of our humanity.

Born in 1960 in Valenciennes, Grégoire Delacourt is a publicist. After the success of L’écrivain de la famille, La liste de mes envies sold more than one million copies and has made him an international success, with translations in 35 countries, and a French film adaptation.

THE WRITER OF THE FAMILY (L’écrivain de la famille)Édouard, who wrote his first poem at 7, is declared “the writer of the family”. But the title is hard to live up to, as his only talent with words seems to be in the advertising business. He will have to witness the slow deterio-ration of his family to finally find the words to tell the story of his loved ones.250 pages, January 2011 / Rights sold in Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden

THE LIST OF MY DESIRES (La liste de mes envies)Jocelyne works at a sewing shop and lives a simple yet happy life with her husband Jocelyn and their two children. And then one day, everything changes when she wins 18 million euros at the lottery. That day, she wins big. Or does she?220 pages, February 2012 / Rights sold in Albania, Brazil, Bulgaria, Catalonia, China, Czech Republic, Den-mark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA, Vietnam.

THE FIRST THING WE LOOK AT (La première chose qu’on regarde)September 15th, 2010. Arthur Dreyfuss is watching an episode of The Sopranos in his Smurfs boxer shorts when someone knocks at the door. She looks just like Scarlett Johansson. He is 20 and a mechanic. She is 26 and somewhat broken.250 pages, March 2013 / Rights sold in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, UK.

Also by Grégoire Delacourt:

Long-listed for the

Prix Goncourt

“Grégoire Delacourt analyzes family ties with such sensibility and such strength that the reader closes the book with a lump in their throat – overwhelmed, but thrilled.” Lire

“One closes the book slightly shaken. The kind of jolt that often makes a best-seller.” L’Express

“The efficient and rapid writing as well as the intentional split structure tally perfectly with Grégoire Delacourt’s complex project.” L’Humanité

Rights sold in Germany (Hoffmann und Campe), Italy (Salani), Marocco (Sama), Poland (Drzewo Babel), Russia (Exmo), Swe-den (Sekwa), UK (Orion).

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RENTRÉE LITTÉRAIRE

SPECULATIVE LOVERSby Hélène RisserLes Amants spéculatifs

Falling in love is risky business.

Hélène is a journalist for a magazine specializing in economics. At the height of the subprime crisis, she is commissioned to be the ghostwriter of the autobiography of a fe-male banker. She remembers Anna B. and her driving ambition, success, inordinate wealth and petulant femininity, from a previous interview. Anna consents to the idea of a book but seems more preoccupied by her love life than by the financial crisis. Then again… what if the laws of finance could limit an investor’s risks in the love market? When Anna’s husband decides to move out, she tries an experiment in trading, and the commodity is love. Hélène is awestruck. Now this is what could be called dangerous speculation!

Hélène Risser is a television journalist and host of a political talk show. She is the author of the novel Une enquête amoureuse (Lattès, 2009) and several political essays.

“A surprising novel that avoids all the clichés and proposes a new, defiant, and femi-nist representation of modern finance.” Les Inrockuptibles

320 pagesSeptember 2014

THE ACROBATby Marc PondruelLe Voltigeur

In a quiet bed and breakfast in Bulgaria, a man reflects on his past and tells his life story.

Twenty years earlier, in the city of Lille: his carefree youth, university, Witold and the gang, four friends with wide-open hearts. They were afraid of nothing but the passage of time - but life always has a way of catching up. It will take the narrator years of roaming the world to forget Witold who fascina-tes him beyond reason. Years to survive Nina who was almost the death of him. Three years to finally find a place for himself in the nights of Istanbul, in the musky perfume and the thick, messy hair of Merve. From the paved streets of Lille to the grand avenues of San Francisco, from the Red Square to the shores of the Black Sea, life is a lesson in acrobatics: one must be smart enough to reinvent the world, and yet to also allow oneself to step to the side from time to time.

Marc Pondruel was born in 1987 and spent his youth in Lille. He has studied audiovisual techniques and collaborated with several magazines. The Acrobat is his first novel.

“This story of a life-long roaming is reinforced with the strength of its orality and raw emotion, as in L. F. Céline.” Le Monde des Livres

350 pagesSeptember 2014

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LITERATURE

STRANGER IN THE MARRIAGEby Emir KusturicaÉtranger dans le mariage

A collection of short stories full of fabulous characters, a combination of tragedy and fan-tasy into what Kusturica calls “magical realism”.

In Bosnia and Herzegovinia, from the seventies and the all-pervading influence of the Communist Party to the nineties and the disbandment of Yugoslavia, these stories tell the lives of three energetic and rebellious young men full of ideals, who are suddenly, violently, confronted with the adult world. They are also stories of love, sometimes impossible love.

Serbian-born Emir Kusturica is one of the rare film directors to earn two Palm d’Or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, for Papa est en voyage d’affaires and Underground. He pu-blished his autobiography with Lattès in 2011.

Rights sold in Bulgaria (Colibri), Italy (Feltrinelli), Russia (Azbooka).

270 pagesJanuary 2015

WHERE AM I IN ALL THIS?Où suis-je dans cette histoire ?

Kusturica’s autobiography is startling in the multitude of situations it evokes, the abundance of characters, spectacularly vivid scenes and genuine dialogue. It reveals behind his slightly eccentric public image a profoundly human artist who feels the joys and sorrows of his country.

300 pages, April 2011/ Rights sold in Bulgaria (Colibri), Catalonia (Grup Editorial 62), Czech Republic (Freytag & Bern), Germany (Knaus), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Konyvkiado), Italy (Feltrinelli), Macedo-nia (TRI), Poland (Claroscura), Romania (Polirom), Russia (Ripol), Slovenia (Mladinska Knjiga), Sweden (Norstedts), and Ukraine (Ecem Media).

Also by Emir Kusturica:

THE CRAZY STORY OF THE URINAL THAT CAUSED THE WARby Laurent Flieder et Dominique LesbrosLa folle histoire de l’urinoir qui déclencha la guerre

1915 must bring peace, or there will be no 1915. Such is the motto of President Fallières who, in these troubled times, has given himself the mission of uniting the world’s populations by hosting the most outlandish Universal Exposition of all time. A parallel group of outspoken artists of the Avant-Garde, among whom the iconoclastic Marcel Duchamp, Guillaume Apolli-naire and Erik Satie, conspire in a café to create an artistic, libertarian, and farcical “anti-expo” they call the Imaginary Exposition. It was to be a window for their artistic worksand eccentric inventions. When a bomb explodes in the Universal Exposition’s commission office, there is scramble to uncover the plot against the Expo, essentially a plot against world peace…

Laurent Flieder is a professor of literature and the author of several books. Dominique Lesbros is a journalist and has written several books on the curiosities of Paris.

370 pagesMay 2014

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NON-FICTION

MY KID IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!Il me cherche!

Keys to understand children’s behavior from age 6 to 11.

At this age, children can be disorganized or violent at school, lacking in concen-tration or self-esteem, congenital liars or intolerant to frustration, bed-wetters, friendless or badmannered, but there are always reasons behind their behavior. While children are gaining in autonomy they must be accompanied on their path to independence. However, the fluctuating boundary between not enough and too much control is not easy to define. Each human being is unique but the brain of a ten-year-old is much more similar to another ten-year-old than to that of an adult.

Rights sold in Estonia (Ajakirjade Kirjastus), Greece (Eleni Kekropoulou), Korea (Good Dream), Poland (Wydawnictwo Esprit) and Turkey (Kuraldisi Yayincilik).

170 pagesMarch 2014

I’VE TRIED EVERYTHING!J’ai tout essayé !

Rebelliousness, tears and rage: getting through ages 1 to 5.

“I’ve tried everything but nothing works. He just keeps at it!” An often heard com-plaint from exhausted, frustrated parents. Fights about getting dressed, cleaning up, leaving for school or going to bed... Strict parents often see this behavior as laziness, insolence or even worse, as signs of a weak character. Permissive parents feel guilty and think they are doing something wrong. What if there were other highly plausible explanations? Isabelle Filliozat’s hypothesis is that children’s behavior is first and foremost a manifestation of their personal needs for growth.

Rights sold in Brazil (GMT Editores), China (China Citic Press), Estonia (Ajakirjade Kir-jastus), Greece (Eleni Kekropoulou), Italy (Edizioni Piemme), Korea (Premium Books), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Poland (Wydawnictwo Esprit), Russia (Phoenix), Spain (Espasa Libros), and Turkey (Kuraldisi Yayincilik).

175 pagesMarch 2011

Isabelle Filliozat Isabelle Filliozat advocates for positive parenting. She believes in a non-violent approach based on listening and empathizing, taking into account a number of recent findings in neurobiology. In each book, she targets a particular age group, identifying the typical “problems” with one or two illustrations; provides scientific explanations about what is happening in the child’s brain; and finally suggests a practical suggestion to remedy the problem. Her books are translated worldwide. I’ve Tried Everything! was a huge success in France, and on the bestseller list for months. My Kid Is Driving Me Crazy! was published in spring 2014.

More than

60 000 copies

sold in

France

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NON-FICTION

JESUS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BARABBASby Gerald MessadiéJésus dit Barabbas

“Then I came upon the name of Barabbas, the thief who, according to the Bible, the Jews chose to be freed instead of Jesus. The name Barabbas means “son of the father” so it cannot be a name since a name is unique and we are all sons of our fathers. In addition to my knowledge of the Orient, my common sense dictated that no man could have been called Barabbas except the one that defined himself as the Son of the Father, Jesus.”

Gerald Messadié, author of the renowned success The Man Who Became God (Robert Laffont, 1988) has reconstituted in the light of his new certitudes, the earthly history of the man who was crucified. He establishes the undeniable fact that the Jews asked Pontius Pilot to free Jesus.

Gerald Messadié is a novelist, writer of essays and noted scholar. His books have been transla-ted throughout the world.

Religion408 pagesOctober 2014

THE MAKING OF EUROPE IN 100 DATESLes cent dates qui ont fait l’Europeby Philippe Juvin

Europe was not born in 1957 with the Treaty of Rome. As proof: the results of a survey taken among the deputies of the 28 countries of the European Union. Each deputy was asked to list the events that in their opinion most influenced the collective history of Europe. The British spoke of Joan of Arc, a Pole of the Reconquista and a Spaniard of Napoleon’s retreat from Russia.

This book has synthesized all the collected information into the 100 dates that formed the European nation. Events both glorious and tragic but that portray the sentiment of belonging to a great community, above and beyond the borders of each person’s country of origin.

Philippe Juvin is a professor of medicine. He is also mayor of La Garenne-Colombes and has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009.

History250 pages

November 2014IT’S ALL YOURS, IF YOU WANT ITby Nathalie LoiseauChoisissez tout

“I remember the irony with which my family often repeated the phrase “She wants it all.” So naive, they thought, naive to want it all, naive to believe it was possible and naive even to say it.”

Nathalie Loiseau remembers when she was that precocious young girl. She recounts the extraordinary path that led her from prestigious Sciences-Po to a passion for public service and diplomacy, a world barely open to women, where she held the most powerful positions. This path has led her to become director of the most famous Administrative college in Paris, ENA. Loiseau speaks of her struggles, her encounters that are sometimes tender, humorous or revolting, and delivers a message of optimism where passion and curiosity are the key. She motivates women everywhere to never give up, to live their lives as women and mothers to the fullest and to rethink their relationships with men and work.

Nathalie Loiseau has spent most of her career in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in In-donesia, Senegal and Morocco. In the USA, she was the spokesperson for the French Embassy for five years.

Self-help250 pagesSeptember 2014

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FICTION

EVERY TWENTY SECONDSby Françoise KerymerTrois éclats toutes les vingt secondes

A summer full of surprises for Emma and her seven-year-old son.

Emma and her son Camille, age seven, disembark on the Isle de Sein off the coast of Brittany for two months’ summer vacation. The young mother is despondent: forced into this exile by her husband, she is unable to connect with her highly intelligent and unpredic-table son and wonders what she may have done to deserve such a punishment. While Camille immediately takes to the island and its enchantments with enthu-siasm, Emma drags her feet. But Armelle’s generous friendship and an encounter with the charming Ronan will help her open up. Will the magic of the island help bring mother and son together?

Formerly a bookseller, Françoise Kerymer today divides her time between Brittany and Paris. She has published two novels: Il faut laisser les cactus dans le placard (2010) and Seuls les poissons (2012), both with Lattès.

350 pagesOctober 2014

STAIRWAY TO PARADISEby Sylvie BrunelUn escalier vers le paradis

A great adventure novel and initiatory voyage to self-enlightenment, both down-to earth and humorous.

Seven women and three men embark on a dream trip on horseback through the Grand Staircase-Escalante, wild mountain territory of the American West, where they face unexpected hardships in the heart of Mormon country. For each of them, this trek through the wilderness will be an eye-opening experience that will forever change their lives. Against the glorious backdrop of the Grand Canyon, Indian legends and Wild West mythology, this story is an ode to the strength of women in which the love of horses is a catalyst to discovering the truth in themselves.

Sylvie Brunel is a geographer, writer and accomplished horseback rider. She has published numerous essays and novels: Manuel de guérilla à l’usage des femmes, Cavalcades et dé-robades, À qui profite le développement durable ? and Géographie amoureuse du monde.

440 pagesMay 2014

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BACKLIST

PARADISE SPAby Akli TadjerLes Thermes du Paradis

A novel full of humor and tenderness set in authentic Paris.

Adèle Reverdy is a 30-year-old woman of many hang-ups and, to make matters worse, men run the other way when they learn she is an undertaker. But her life will change the day she meets Leo, ex-trapeze artist, blinded by an accident, now a masseur at the Paradise Spa. Adèle decides, with the help of her best friend Leila, a talented embalmer, that she will do everything in her power to conquer Leo’s heart.

Akli Tadjer is the author of eight novels, three of which (Le passage du Tassili, Le porteur de cartable, and Il était une fois) have been adapted to the screen.

“Akli Tadjer plays with clichés and excesses. He is at turns cynical, amusing, tender – and char-ming.” Le Monde des Livres

Rights sold in Germany (Blanvalet / Random House), Italy (Garzanti) and Sweden (Sekwa).280 pagesMarch 2014

ROUGH TO VERY ROUGH SEASby Sophie BassignacMer agitée à très agitée

Rock’n’roll by the sea.

After several fast and stylish, but also dangerous years in New York, ex-model Maryline and ex-rock star William escape to the coast of Brittany for a quiet life running a small hotel. But one July morning, a young woman is found dead in a cove nearby. During his investigation, Simon Schwartz will shake Maryline’s peaceful existence and wake up the ghosts from her past.

After five critically acclaimed novels, Sophie Bassignac signs a vivacious and charming novel.

“Sophie Bassignac is a natural writer with an engaging sense of detail and melancholy.”Madame Figaro

Rights sold in Germany (Hoffmann und Campe).

250 pagesJanuary 2014

ISN’T THIS FAR ENOUGH AT SEA?by Dominique SchneidreAvons-nous assez navigué ?

What if you meet up with your first love thirty years later?

When a woman is well beyond the age of reason like Viviane Rivet, can she become comple-tely infatuated with a man? What if she broke up with that man thirty years earlier and bumped into him by accident at the opera? The object of her desires, Antoine Fournier, is still a fascinating man but is he a passionate one and does he have anything to offer Viviane this time around?

Dominique Schneidre is the author of eight novels, among which Atteinte à la mémoire des morts (Robert Laffont, 1987), La Capitaine (Seuil, 1990), and Ce qu’en dit James (Seuil, 2007).

“[Schneidre writes] with a mix of tenderness and irony that make us fall for her characters.” Le Figaro Littéraire

200 pagesMay 2014

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Fitz is not an average crime novel hero. A perfect parasite, this lazy womanizer enjoys the Parisian nightlife to the fullest living on drug money, which does not help his relations with his ex-girlfriend Jessica, a detective. When Jessica threatens to turn him in, he has no choice but to get involved in a murder investigation she is leading. To help him with his unorthodox investigations, the unlikely hero can count on his two best friends, Deborah and Moussah, as well as on a motley cast of night owls, junkies and hackers.

HIGH HEELS BRING WOMEN CLOSER TO HEAVENLes talons hauts rapprochent les filles du ciel

A serial killer lurks in the streets of Paris at night, targeting young women. The only thing the murders have in common : all the women were clients of the most popular night clubs.

“You won’t go out in Paris the same way after you read this novel.” Elle

360 pages, November 2013 / Rights sold in Turkey

Also by Olivier Gay- The Fitz series:

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE BODY?by Olivier GayMais je fais quoi du corps ?

Just when Fitz has at last found a suitable girlfriend that he is about to introduce to his parents, he receives a phone call from one of his VIP clients: the popular politician, Georges Venard. Venard needs some drugs and firmly requests immediate delivery. Fitz can’t refuse the opportunity to make some good money so he ditches his family and heads to Venard’s house, only to find his door locked and the phone on the answering machine. The next morning, Venard is on the front pages of all the newspapers: he was found dead in his home. The investigation has concluded it was suicide. Why has a tiny doubt begun to grow in Fitz’ mind? Why has his apartment been visi-ted in his absence and why does he now have killers on his trail? Fitz will need the help of old friends Deborah and Moussah to extricate himself from this sticky affair.

A former strategic consultant in Paris, Olivier Gay earned the Best First Novel prize at the Beaune festival for his novel Les talons hauts rapprochent les filles du ciel, in 2012.

“Funny and spirited.” Marie-France

“A not-too-dark crime novel, to enjoy between the lines.” LibérationCrime300 pagesJanuary 2014

MODELS OF BAD BEHAVIORLes mannequins ne sont pas des filles modèles

Moussa’s new girlfriend, a model, goes missing while getting ready for a fashion competition. Could one of the other girls competing have something to do with it?

“Olivier Gay describes the Paris nightlife with the know-how of both a journalist and a sociolo-gist.” Le Magazine du Monde

350 pages, February 2013

CRIME NOVELS

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THE DOGS OF ODESSAby Charles HaquetLes Fauves d’Odessa

“For an appetizer: urotropin-flavored caviar on toast, followed by a delicious terrine made from pork fed with clenbuterol, a common anabolic steroid used by body-builders. And for the pièce de résistance, a medley of fish: tilapia spiced with antibiotics and estrogen-soa-ked salmon. No more need to take birth control pills, ladies.”

Camille Dupreux, founder of the consulting firm TracFood, specialized in the traceability of foods, disappears during the investigation of a suspicious company that imports food from Asia. His associate, Marco, begins the search and discovers much to his horror, a counterfeit food industry and the cynicism of Western industrialists. From China to Odessa, he searches for the jail where Camille is detained by the pitiless dogs of the Ukrainian mafia. He knows they will stop at nothing to keep their business thriving.

Charles Haquet, grand reporter with L’Express, gleaned his inspiration from numerous field investigations and transports us to the terrifying world of the mafia and the criminal networks of food-trafficking.

“This is first and foremost an investigation – as serious as the best documentaries. But it also has a lot of wit and humor. An excellent novel. Be careful NOT to devour it!”Le Figaro LittéraireCrime

280 pagesJune 2014

THE ROAD TO SANTA ANNAby Serge BrussoloLa route de Santa Anna

Markh is a celebrated stuntman, passionate about driving. He was recruited by a drug dealer with an idea so crazy it’s almost believable. At the Mexican border in Texas, on both sides of the Rio Grande is a monument dedicated to friendship between the two countries. It resembles a cement launching ramp, like a bridge missing the middle. Markh’s mission is to pilot a car whose motor is souped-up on nitric oxide, drive it up the ramp on one side and fly over to the American side. There he collects several million dollars and drives back to Mexico the same way. The operation is meticulously prepared and promises to be a success. One thing they didn’t count on was a family of losers living in a trailer nearby: Grampa Julius, a tyrannical ex-military parachute jumper, Wichita, his daughter-in-law who dreams of Hollywood, her daughter, Sue, whose job it is to guard the monument and Timmy, the slightly retarded little brother. Together they decide to steal the money from the car, but everything goes terribly wrong and the Mexican cartel wants revenge.

Serge Brussolo published Funnyway that won the Grand Prix for science-fiction in 1979. He has also written several successful series for young readers, historical novels and crime novels translated in several languages.

MASQUEPOCHE

LA ROUTE

DE SANTA ANNASerge Brussolo

BRUSSOLO INÉDIT Crime

400 pagesOctober 2014

CRIME NOVELS

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