Affairs of State: Featuring Investigator Noria Ghozali (Eurocrime) [Paperback]

Dominique Manotti (Author)

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Series: Eurocrime | Publication Date: June 1, 2010

From the winner of the CWA Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award 2008. Dominique Manotti is back on form with a tale of intrigue and corruption. A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international client is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, and the president's closest advisor Bornard, head of a controversial Elysée security unit, manipulates the system with consummate ease - and illegality. Until the day when rookie investigator Noria Ghozali determines to untangle the threads which bind these events together. In doing so she penetrates the Elysée's innermost system, confronts the workings of money and corruption within government, and in the process is forced to combat the institutional - and overt - racism which repeatedly stalls her.

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About the Author

Dominique Manotti is the author of Dead Horsemeat; The Lorraine Connection, winner of the 2008 Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award; and Rough Trade, awarded Top Thriller of 2006 by the French Crime Writers' Association.

Product Details

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publisher: Arcadia Books (June 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906413495
• ISBN-13: 978-1906413491
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,246,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars good author; okay book, June 28, 2010

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Manotti is always a good read, but this seems to me not to be the best of her work. Certainly, to call this a Noria Ghozali book overstates the role of that attractive investigator. The French cultural factors in terms of the relationship of an Arab investigator in the French police are interesting to me, given that my understanding of this is mainly from reading the NYTimes and not infrequent trips to Paris, but those are to areas not particularly involved in the cultural tensions. I was very much looking forward to this book, and to reading it as slowly as possible, but while I enjoyed it I didn't find it particularly memorable.