Last year I informed here about Yasmina Khadra, an Algerian
writer. His first HB/noir "Morituri" was recently published
by Toby Press, in their Toby Crime imprint. "Double Blank"
will be issued in March. These two short volumes are the two
first novels of a trilogy describing the struggle of
"commisaire Llob". The pseudo used by the writer evoked a
feminine name, but it's a man
(former high rank officer in the Algerian army) who wrote
these noir novels, in French, about a police officer, Brahim
Llob, fighting with his limited means corruption and
Integrism in a decaying Algeria. It's moving, sometime
brutal, very dark and full of irony close to cynicism. In
French, the language served admirably the purpose: concise,
structured and very efficient.
"Morituri", first published in 1997, is IMHO one of the best
noir novels written in French during the last ten years.
Strongly recommended.
I did not read the English translations, but IMO it could not
lose very much in English (unless a very lousy
translator…).
In 2004, Khadra added a fourth part: "La part du mort" (=The
Dead Man's Share).
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