Olivier Norek

Entre deux mondes

Impact

Le grand retour du capitaine Coste, tant attendu par les lecteurs d'Olivier Norek. Une île de l'Atlantique, battue par les vents, le brouillard et la neige... Un flic qui a disparu depuis six ans et dont les nouvelles missions sont classées secret défense... Sa résidence surveillée, forteresse imprenable protégée par des vitres pare-balles... La jeune femme qu'il y garde enfermée... Et le monstre qui les traque. Dans les brumes de Capelans, la nouvelle aventure du capitaine Coste se fera à l'aveugle.

Dans les brumes de Capelans

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Мертвая вода

Ici, personne ne veut plus de cette capitaine de police. Là-bas, personne ne veut de son enquête.

Surface

Les guerriers de l’hiver

Code 93

Coste est capitaine de police au groupe crime du SDPJ 93. Depuis quinze ans, il a choisi de travailler en banlieue et de naviguer au coeur de la violence banalisée et des crimes gratuits. Une série de découvertes étranges, un mort qui ouvre les yeux à la morgue, un toxico qui périt par auto-combustion, l'incite à penser que son enquête, cette fois-ci, va dépasser le cadre des affaires habituelles du 9-3. Et les lettres anonymes qui lui sont adressées personnellement vont le guider vers des sphères autrement plus dangereuses... Écrit par un lieutenant de police, 93 Code zéro se singularise par une authenticité qui doit tout à l'expérience de son auteur ; cette plongée dans un monde où se côtoient aménagement urbain et manipulations criminelles au sein des milieux politiques et financiers nous laisse médusés.

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Les guerriers de l'hiver

"Tu as sûrement entendu parler des Enfers ? Là, c'est pareil, mais le diable lui-même ne comprendrait pas ce qu'il se passe ici." " Je suis certain que nous avons réveillé leur satané Sisu. – Je ne parle pas leur langue, camarade. – Et je ne pourrais te traduire ce mot, car il n'a d'équivalent nulle part ailleurs. Le Sisu est l'âme de la Finlande. Il dit le courage, la force intérieure, la ténacité, la résistance, la détermination... Une vie austère, dans un environnement hostile, a forgé leur mental d'un acier qui nous résiste aujourd'hui. " Imaginez un pays minuscule. Imaginez-en un autre, gigantesque. Imaginez maintenant qu'ils s'affrontent. Au cœur du plus mordant de ses hivers, au cœur de la guerre la plus meurtrière de son histoire, un peuple se dresse contre l'ennemi, et parmi ses soldats naît une légende. La légende de Simo, la Mort Blanche.

Les Guerriers de l'Hiver : prix Renaudot des lycéens 2024 - prix Jean Giono 2024

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2025 "A novel you will not put down. Maybe never."—Richard Ford With over 600,000 copies sold, an award-winning WWII novel about the heroism of a single Finnish infantry company—and the best sniper the world has ever seen—defending their country against the largest army in the world November 1939: The Soviet Union invades its small, relatively defenseless neighbor Finland, just three months after the declaration of World War II. So began what is known as the Winter War. A makeshift Finnish army of soldiers, workers, and farmers must face off against columns of tanks and millions of Stalin's Red Army fighters. In a dramatic and deeply moving narrative based in part on diaries, journals, and accounts of participants, Norek captures the horror and tragedy of war. Soldiers go to battle with a shortage of weapons, and cold becomes both enemy and friend—causing wounds to freeze and limiting the movement of the invaders. The legendary sniper Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the "White Death," puts terror in the hearts and minds of the Russians. Intense, propulsive, and deeply human, The Winter Warriors is an stunning historical novel of Finnish courage and determination in the face of the Soviet invasion.

The Winter Warriors

By the Author of the LOST and the DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month

Breaking Point

Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on SPIRAL and a million-copy bestseller "Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, FT When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread - his resignation letter parked in his superior's desk draw - he is plunged into his most testing ordeal yet. A raid on the vault at the Bobigny law courts. Five vital pieces of evidence swiped. Four men who can no longer be held: an armed robber, a foreign legionnaire, a kidnapper and a paedophile. But what is the connection between them? With Coste and his team at a loss, it's the moral outrage of another criminal that will throw up a lead: one they'll follow to their breaking point - and beyond. What readers are saying about Olivier Norek You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral, which can only be a major positive! A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact. A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark. I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

by the author of THE LOST AND THE DAMNED, a Times Crime Book of the Month

Territoires

Turf Wars

"Slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted. It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times "Exhilarating . . . This is not conventional crime" Barry Forshaw, Independent Introducing Olivier Norek: Former police officer, writer on Spiral and an award-winning, million-copy bestseller. A corpse that wakes up during the autopsy. A case of spontaneous human combustion. There is little by the way of violent crime that Capitaine Victor Coste has not encountered in his fifteen years policing France's most notorious suburb - but nothing like this. As he struggles to find a link between the cases, he receives a pair of anonymous letters highlighting the fates of two women whose deaths were never explained - two more blurred faces among the ranks of the lost and the damned. Why were their murders not investigated? Coste is not the only one asking that question. Someone out there believes justice is best served on a cold mortuary slab. What readers are saying about The Lost and the Damned You can see the similarities with the TV series Spiral, which can only be a major positive! A hard hitting and gritty French crime read that makes an impact. A great thriller, sardonic, humorous, dark. I loved this book. Well written and had an authentic feel to it. A complete page turner. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

The Times Crime Book of the Month

The Lost and the Damned

Přistoupí milující sestra – šéfka korsického gangu, působícího v Paříži, na riskantní „obchod“, aby dostala bratra z vězení? Čeho bude schopen milující otec, aby zachránil rodinu před nesmlouvavými vetřelci? Kapitán Victor Costa si uvědomuje, že stojí před nejtěžším případem své kariéry. Detektivní román současného francouzského autora a kriminalisty zachycuje příběhy odehrávající se v prostředí nechvalně proslulého pařížského předměstí. Norek je temný a drsný, ale zároveň lidský. Jeho bohaté zkušenosti neumožňují černobílé vidění světa. I postavy gangsterů proto čtenář nachází v nebývale lidském světle. Olivier Norek (nar. 1975 v Toulouse) je francouzský kriminalista, který se stal bestselerovým spisovatelem detektivek. Ve svých knihách čerpá ze skutečných událostí a příběhů, které zažil při své kriminalistické práci. Dodnes působí v Pátracím a vyšetřovacím oddělení v departementu Seine-Saint-Denis. Ze série s kapitánem Costou dosud vedle knihy Code 93 (2019) vyšel i druhý případ Teritoria (2019) a třetí případ Vysoké napětí, který byl v prestižní anketě časopisu Elle vybrán jako krimi kniha roku 2017 (Grand Prix des lectrices Elle 2017 – Policiers) vyjde na přelomu srpna a září.

Syrový thriller psaný skutečným kriminalistou.

Vysoké napětí

A second blistering crime novel set in France's most notorious suburb, by a police officer turned million-copy bestseller and key writer on Spiral "Hits the ground running and never lets up . . . This impressive debut is slick, sick and not for the faint-hearted . . . It will make you cry out (for more)" - Mark Sanderson, The Times on The Lost and the Damned The summary execution of three dealers - one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team - is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France's most notorious suburb. Now there's a new kingpin in charge, using his ruthless teenage enforcer to assert an iron grip on his territory. And the local mayor, no stranger to the criminal underworld, is willing to make a pact with the devil if it will secure her a third term. Enter Capitaine Coste and his team, ready to break the rules to prevent the drugs squad from throwing an elderly stash-minder to the lions as bait. But when the blue touchpaper is lit on the estates, it will be all they can do to save their own skins from the inferno. Once again, Norek draws on all his experience as a police officer in France's capital of crime - the same experience he drew on as a writer for the hit TV series Spiral - making Turf Wars the most authentic crime novel you'll read all year. Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

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