Of Fangs And Talons Av Nicolas Mathieu

<p><b>Powerful and compelling'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br><b>''Mathieu, a wonderful writer, echoes the grittiness and compassion of ¿ile Zola in Germinal'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>After the closure of a small-town factory is announced, the local community is hit by the prospect of mass unemployment. With nothing left to lose, the desperate workers take matters into their own hands. Martel, a former trade union rep, and Bruce, a bodybuilder on steroids, resort to extreme measures. And after an attempted kidnapping goes horribly wrong, they are dragged into a spiraling frenzy of crime. <br><br>In the political tradition of Balzac and Zola, <i>Of Fangs and Talons </i>announces Nicolas Mathieu as one of the most urgent contemporary voices in French literature.<br><br><b>''Nicolas Mathieu has written one of the best crime novels of the year''</b><br><i><b>Le Monde</b></i></p>