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Dominique
Sylvain
Darkness
and Light
Suspense novel, approx. 300 pages - Due out in March 2014
In this devilishly well-crafted crime novel, neither the guilty nor the innocent
are quite what they seem. Political-legal scandals intertwine in a way
reminiscent of those thousand-piece puzzles that superintendent Lola Jost is
fond of. She will have to piece this one together time and again before being able
to make out the whole picture...
In 1998, an attack took place against the French company Aerolix, located in
Damas. At the funeral ceremony, the daughter of one of the victims refuses the
official decoration awarded to her father by the President of the Republic, and
demands that someone be held to account.
In Paris, Sacha Duguin is accused of the murder of her superior: the chief
superintendent Armaud Mars who had dabbled in insider influence linked to
arms contracts and suspicious retro commissioning processes in Africa.
To exonerate Sacha, Lola Jost, the retired superintendent, takes up her
functions again. She is soon assisted by her inseparable American sidekick,
Ingrid Diesel, who comes to the rescue from Las Vegas where she has been
demonstrating her unparalleled talents in dance and strip-tease.
But the road that will take them from the “Mars case” to the Aerolix attack is
long: from Abidjan, the clues surrounding Mars take them to Brittany, where
Aerolix has a plant, via Hong Kong.
In the background of these two cases is the lightning career of President Borel
magnificently orchestrated by his charismatic communication adviser, Gildas
and his faithful ally, Mando; the equally dizzying fall of of his political opponent,
Candichard, who committed suicide leaving behind an inconsolable wife and son;
and the inquiries of a young judge who breaks the political omertà, preventing
the cases from being settled.
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