Death On The Rive Nord.

ADRIAN MAGSON

Publication: Allison & Busby, 2011, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travelers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but looking for any who aren't creates an issue loaded with threats of civil unrest. When Rocco is ordered to stay away from one factory where he suspects illegals are employed, it goes against everything he knows. One of the illegals is a young woman with a small child, on the run from her brutal husband, Samir Farek, an Algerian gangster who has threatened to kill them both. But Farek has another, bigger agenda: to take over as gang lord in Paris. Caught between his instinct to protect a vulnerable woman and her child, of obeying bosses interested only in preserving the status quo, and facing the threat of a dangerous gangster who recognizes no boundaries in the murderous pursuit of his plans.