Rough Trade

By: Dominique Manotti

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Paperback | 12 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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266 Pages

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14 x 19.9 x 2.3

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This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris''s rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris - the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers'' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also Police Inspector Danquin''s lover. This is a gripping morality tale of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.

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"Set in Le Sentier, the district of Paris where expensive clothes are made in sweatshops, it uses real events - the struggle by foreign workers to get legal status - as the setting for an extraordinarily vivid crime novel." - Joan Smith, Books of the Year, Independent

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