Death On The Rive Nord
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Crime; Mystery
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March 2011
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World English Language: Canelo
Inspector Rocco Series 2
Picardie, 1963.
A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life.
Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death.
For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travellers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but trawling for any who aren't is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of civil unrest, something which terrifies his bosses in the Ministry. And when Rocco is ordered to stay away from one factory, where he suspects illegals are being employed, it goes against everything he knows.
However, his diffiulcties have barely begun. 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. With a history of disposing with anyone who crosses him - a fate he is happy to mete out even to a senior policeman who gets in his way - the potential consequences are frightening.
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 recognises no boundaries in the murderous pursuit of his plans, Rocco begins to wonder how long he can survive.
Other books by Adrian Magson
Inspector Lucas Rocco series
Other books by Adrian Magson
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Death at the Old Asylum, October 2021, Lucas Rocco (Book 7)
The Drone, May 2021, Cruxys Solutions (Book 2)
The Locker, April 2021, Cruxys Solutions (Book 1)
A Hostile State, February 2021, Marc Portman (Book 5)
Rocco and the Snow Angel (reissue), December 2020, Lucas Rocco (novella)
Smart Moves (reissue), December 2020
Rocco and the Price of Lies (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 6)
Rocco and the Nightingale (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 5)
Death at the Clos du Lac (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 4)
Death on the Pont Noir (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 3)
Death on the Rive Nord (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 2)
Death on the Marais (reissue), October 202o, Lucas Rocco (Book 1)
Terminal Black, February 2020, Harry Tate (Book 6)
Rocco and the Price of Lies, August 2019, Lucas Rocco (Book 6)
Smart Moves, August 2018
Rocco and the Nightingale, October 2017, Lucas Rocco (Book 5)
Dark Asset, July 2017, Marc Portman (Book 4)
Hard Cover, July 2016, Marc Portman (Book 3)
Rocco and the Snow Angel, January 2015, Lucca Rocco (novella)
Close Quarters, January 2015, Marc Portman (Book 2)
The Watchman, January 2014, Marc Portman (Book 1)
Execution, September 2013, Harry Tate (Book 5)
Death at the Clos du Lac, August 2013, Lucas Rocco (Book 4)
Retribution, January 2013, Harry Tate (Book 4)
Death on the Pont Noir, June 2012, Lucas Rocco (Book 3)
Deception, November 2011, Harry Tate (Book 3)
Death on the Rive Nord, August 2011, Lucas Rocco (Book 2)
Tracers, June 2011, Harry Tate (Book 2)
Death on the Marais, January 2011, Lucas Rocco (Book 1)
Red Station, December 2010, Harry Tate (Book 1)
No Kiss for the Devil, September 2008, Gavin & Palmer (Book 5)
No Tears for the Lost, February 2007, Gavin & Palmer (Book 4)
No Sleep for the Dead, January 2007, Gavin & Palmer (Book 3)
No Help for the Dying, January 2005, Gavin & Palmer (Book 2)
No Peace for the Wicked, January 2004, Gavin & Palmer (Book 1)