This is the night they come for you / Robert Goddard.
By: Goddard, Robert [author].
Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2022Edition: Large print edition.Description: 462 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444849493.Subject(s): Police -- Algeria -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Secret service -- Fiction | Intelligence service -- Fiction | Spies -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery - one surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Before long, Taleb will face a choice he has long sought to avoid: between self-preservation, and doing the right thing.Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery - one surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Before long, Taleb will face a choice he has long sought to avoid: between self-preservation, and doing the right thing.
Adult.