Between Two Worlds

THE TIMES Best Crime Novel of the Year 2024

By: Olivier Norek

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Paperback | 17 July 2025 | Edition Number 1

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**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024**

**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**

** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**

"A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction" Sunday Times

"The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The Times

Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. A captain in Assad's military police, he's about to be exposed as a covert member of the Free Syrian Army, and he knows exactly what fate awaits him.

His first move is to send his wife and daughter to Libya, where they can find a boat heading for Europe. Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for migrants seeking passage to the fabled Youke.

Bastien Miller, a police lieutenant freshly transferred to the Calais police force, arrives at about the same time. His wife is drowning in grief for her late father and their teenage daughter may never forgive them for the move.

When Adam risks his life to protect a young migrant, the two officers make a deal - information on Adam's family in exchange for intel from the Jungle. Then a body is found in the camp, and the deal becomes an alliance, uniting them in a common cause to do one good deed in a world where vice is a virtue.

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***** "This is an exceptional book, the best one I've read in 2024 so far and I've read a lot of excellent books this year by some very big name authors"

Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

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Extraordinary . . . a police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction, drawing on Norek's experience during 18 years in the French force - The Times

My expectations were more than met . . . Vivid scene-setting and a fine translation by Nick Caistor keep the narrative flowing quickly in this absorbing, topical story - Financial Times

Diamond-hard, unrelenting Gallic crime fiction with a telling strand of social history - Financial Times Best Summer Books of 2024

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