The Wicked Go to Hell (Pushkin Vertigo): 10 - Softcover

Frédéric Dard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782271961 ISBN 13: 9781782271963

Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo, 2016

Synopsis

We ll lock you both up in the same jail cell... a tough one... the sort of place that gives kindly old ladies the shivers.

At one of France s toughest prisons, an undercover cop is attempting to trap an enemy spy by posing as a fellow inmate. So Frank and Hal find themselves holed up together in a grimy, rat-infested cell, each warily eyeing the other. As they plan a daring escape, an unexpected friendship ensues but which is the cop and which is the spy?

About this title

Review:

'Fast-moving... a one-sitting read' -- Independent

'A typically fast-paced, brutal and smart offering from the prolific French writer' -- Sunday Times Crime Club

'Absolutely outstanding' -- Raven Crime Reads

'A great thing to have it newly on the shelves for people to discover' -- Bookbag

'No question: for me, he was the greatest' -- Philippe Geluck

'The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine' -- Le Figaro

'His language is cutting, his point-of-view original and his verdict uncompromising... One of the few twentieth-century authors to win both critical acclaim and great popularity' -- Solidarite Militaire

'France's most popular post-war author' --L'Express

'The prison is eerie, the action hard-hitting and the obscure friendship very compelling' --International Crime Fiction

About the Author:

Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote hundreds of thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays throughout his long and illustrious career. Bird in a Cage, Crush and The Executioner Weeps (for which he won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière) will also be published by Pushkin Vertigo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pushkin Vertigo
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1782271961
• ISBN 13: 9781782271963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160