Dirty war
By: Dominique Sylvain ; translated from the French by Nick Caistor
Contributors: Caistor, Nick, translator
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780857052162; 9781780876054
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; Arms transfers; Corrupt practices; Women private investigators; Fiction
Work titles: Guerre sale
Description: A lawyer who specialises in French-African relations is found brutally murdered after suffering 'the torture of Father Lebrun' - a burning tyre is placed around his neck until he suffocates. The case is already explosive because of its connections to high-profile members of the Franco-African arms trade. But for Lola Jost, the case has a darker resonance - her much-loved assistant, a mixed race policeman named Toussaint Kidjo, was murdered in the same manner five years before - a crime that was never solved. Weaving in our favourite larger-than-life characters from The Dark Angel, this is a far darker story, as Lola and Ingrid become embroiled in a case that draws attention from all the wrong quarters.
Notes: "A Lola and Ingrid investigation"--Cover.

Originally published in French as: Guerre sale. Paris : Viviane Hamy, 2011.

Translated from the French.