num_pages: 327
description: Every year the storks set off on their miraculous 12000-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 Grang'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. Jean-Christophe Grang was born in Paris in 1961. His acclaimed thriller Blood-red Rivers (Harvill 2000) has become an international bestseller. * Absolutely riveting stuff. Peter Millar The Times London * Blood-red Rivers is a blistering murder mystery . . . If there is any justice in the world this novel will not only hold its own in the bestseller list but will top it. Peter Longcake The Bookseller
language: English
title: Flight of the Storks
publisher: Harvill Press