Moment Before Drowning Brydon James Pevná vazba
"Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, Pick of the Week "An exploration of political oppression…
Specifikacia Moment Before Drowning Brydon James Pevná vazba
"Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review, Pick of the Week "An exploration of political oppression wrapped in a carefully constructed mystery. In Brydon's auspicious debut...the characters are alive and the mystery is mostly satisfying. An erudite and entertaining addition to the shelf." --Kirkus Reviews "Brydon's The Moment Before Drowning is one of the season's most remarkable debuts and the launch of a complex and truly memorable protagonist, Captain Jacques le Garrec, a lion of the French Resistance, now disgraced by his intelligence service in Algeria and returned to his hometown in Brittany, where he's promptly charged with investigating a cold case murder. Le Garrec has stepped directly out of a Jean-Pierre Melville film and into a