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Rough Trade First Thus Edition
Author(s): Dominique Manotti (Author), Elfreda Powell (Translator), Margaret Crosland (Translator)
- Publisher: Arcadia Books
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2003
- Edition: First Thus
- Language: English
- Print length: 266 pages
- ISBN-10: 1900850877
- ISBN-13: 9781900850872
Book Description
This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris’s rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex – including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris – the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers’ secret lives. A Turkish man – a police informer and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers – is also Police Inspector Danquin’s lover. This is a gripping morality tale of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. “Rough Trade”, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.
