Anna Heymes, the wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations. In an effort to understand her malady, a psychiatrist performs a series of tests, which reveal that she has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery, totally transforming her appearance. When, where, and why, Anna cannot remember.
In the Turkish district of Paris, two policemen investigate the brutal murders of three women from the tenth arrondissement's underground workshops. At the heart of their investigation is a powerful and ruthless group of right-wing Turkish mafia members, the "Grey Wolves," who are involved in every conceivable manner of illegal trafficking.
The link between Anna and the three murders becomes increasingly clear as her past is revealed and each of these characters -- prey and predator, manipulated and manipulator -- race toward an astonishing and horrible collision in the murky streets of a clandestine Paris and in the shadowy confines of Istanbul.
A riveting blend of terror and mystery from the author of Blood-Red Rivers, "the best thriller since The Silence of the Lambs" (Le Figaro), The Empire of the Wolves is a gripping, hair-raising page-turner from "France's own Stephen King" (VSD).

The Empire of the Wolves: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Grange,Jean-Christophe

Contemporary

Ecco

The international sensation -- a riveting and electrifying blend of mystery, terror, and tense, violent action
Anna Heymes fears she is losing her mind. The wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, she suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations -- a living nightmare made more horrifying when psychiatric testing reveals that Anna has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery . . . though she cannot recall when or why.
In the tenth arrondissement of Paris, a rookie police inspector and a seasoned veteran called out of retirement investigate the horrific murders of three anonymous young women -- illegal Turkish aliens who could not have deserved such a brutal, inhuman death.
From the murky night streets of clandestine Paris to the teeming fleshpot of Istanbul, two bizarre and terrible stories will become one -- as prey and predator, manipulated and manipulator come together in a storm of blood and fury . . . in the hideous shadow of the wolf.

Empire of the Wolves, The

United States

The international sensation -- a riveting and electrifying blend of mystery, terror, and tense, violent actionAnna Heymes fears she is losing her mind. The wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, she suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations -- a living nightmare made more horrifying when psychiatric testing reveals that Anna has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery . . . though she cannot recall when or why.In the tenth arrondissement of Paris, a rookie police inspector and a seasoned veteran called out of retirement investigate the horrific murders of three anonymous young women -- illegal Turkish aliens who could not have deserved such a brutal, inhuman death.From the murky night streets of clandestine Paris to the teeming fleshpot of Istanbul, two bizarre and terrible stories will become one -- as prey and predator, manipulated and manipulator come together in a storm of blood and fury . . . in the hideous shadow of the wolf.

The Empire of the Wolves

World Literature

Harper Collins Canada

Blood Red Rivers

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Vintage

In a world of knife-edge glaciers a hideous crime leads two maverick detectives to confront the limits of human evil. A corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. It has been horribly mutilated. The brilliant but violent ex-commando Pierre Niémans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to lead the investigation. Meanwhile, in a town in south-west France, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second baby is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in the search for their killers, a trail that embroils them in the mysterious cult of the blood red rivers.

Genre Fiction

Blood-Red Rivers

Pierre Niemans and Karim Abdouf, two highly uncoventional policmen, join forces to solve murders in the French Alps.

Monk, Ian

Harvill Pr

Niemans is the ex golden-boy of the commando squad. Abdouf is a young ruffian turned police inspector. They are both experienced police officers who believe they have seen everything, until both come up against gruesome cases and the two team up when a third, connected victim is found.

This is a story about a young man who sets out to find out why the storks do not all return from Central Africa back to Northern Europe. It is a 12,000 mile trip for the storks. Louis Antioch is a wealthy Swiss ornithologist who has agreed to solve the mystery.

Flight of the Storks

The Harvill Press

Louis Antioch, a young French scholar, undertakes a mission at the invitation of wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm to trace the twelve-thousand-mile migration of the storks from northern Europe to Central Africa after the birds mysteriously vanish one year, but his journey takes on a perilous new focus when Boehm dies of a heart attack under suspicious circumstances. 15,000 first printing.

Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. Then one year, inexplicably, they do not return.At the invitation of the wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm, a young French academic, Louis Antioch, agrees to undertake a journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before Antioch can set off on his trip, however, Boehm dies of a heart attack under suspicious circumstances, or so the police believe.This is the background to Jean-Christophe Grange's pulsating and darkly mysterious new thriller. Its plot moves at a dramatic pace, from a Bulgarian Gypsy encampment to Israeli kibbutzim and to Calcutta from the green jungles of Central Africa. As the mystery deepens, it becomes clear that it is not only the stork that is an endangered species.

Harvill Press

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The Empire of the Wolves: A Novel

Empire of the Wolves, The

The Empire of the Wolves

Blood Red Rivers

Blood Red Rivers

Blood-Red Rivers

Blood-Red Rivers

Flight of the Storks

Flight of the Storks

Flight of the Storks