Albert Simonin

Le grisbi

The Loot

November 5, 2020
Noir Fiction
544 pages
140 × 225 mm
22,90 €
9782358870085
978-2-3588-7008-5
																Albert Simonin, Le grisbi
																Albert Simonin, Le grisbi

Immersed in a Paris that is no longer and where the gossip of mobsters resounds, Simonin’s work sublimates the world of thugs and has opened the doors of French literature.

Max, says the Liar, a veteran of Parisian mobsters, is about to settle down. He’s gone around the middle, made the most of it and won’t regret it. All the more so as this world is changing: drug dealers are gaining ground, mobsters are internationalizing, and the code of honor doesn’t seem to worry the youth. Just leaving “business” is not something that can be done in the blink of an eye. There are old friends who ask you for a last service, the succession to organize, the future to ensure...

The author

The first French author to officially join the Black Series and the first black author to receive a major literary prize, Albert Simonin introduces social chronicles into his detective plots. With Michel Audiard, he forms an accomplice duo and will sign more than thirteen screenplays, including several adaptations of his novels.

Press

“Simonin is the Chateaubriand of the underworld.”

Léo Malet.

“Simonin powerfully helped me to discover a living language.”

Jean Cocteau.

“I have always dreamed of being a crook. I became an author because authors rarely go to prison and Simonin helped me a lot.”

Michel Audiard.
Strong points

A re-edition in one volume of Simonin’s mythical trilogy several times adapted to the cinema (Don’t Touch the Loot!, The Counterfeiters of Paris and Crooks in Clover).

Edition with an unpublished preface by François Guérif and an interview of the author by the latter.

An author impossible to ignore in the history of the French noir novel.

November 5, 2020
Noir Fiction
544 pages
140 × 225 mm
22,90 €
9782358870085
978-2-3588-7008-5