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Author / Creator:Khadra, Yasmina.
Uniform title:Part du mort. English
Edition:1st English language ed.
Imprint:New Milford, CT : Toby Press, 2009.
Description:341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:An Inspector Llob mystery
Khadra, Yasmina. Inspector Llob mystery.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7845052
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Other authors / contributors:Botsford, Aubrey.
ISBN:9781592642694 (pbk.)
1592642691 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published as: La part du mort, by Julliard, Paris, 2004.
Summary:Superintendent Brahim Llob is bored. Then suddenly peace is shattered in ways Llob could never imagine. His subordinate, Lieutenant Lino, falls for an unsuitable woman and is devastated when she returns to her previous lover, the wealthy Haj Thobane. Lino is accused of attempting to murder Thobane and Llob must try to prove his innocence.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Khadra again proves to be Camus's heir apparent in this searing prequel to his Algerian trilogy featuring Supt. Brahim Llob (Morituri, etc.), set in modern Algiers with its dual personality ("one that used to inspire poets" vs. one "where minstrels are locked up in jails"). Llob is dismayed to find his latest case involves a subordinate, Lieutenant Lino, who has become obnoxious, spending money he doesn't have to impress a new girlfriend. Lino is devastated when the woman humiliates him in public by returning to Haj Thobane, her rich former lover. Lino is later arrested after his gun is found near the body of Thobane's limo driver shot during an attack on Thobane. The pseudonymous Khadra (Mohammed Moulessehoul), a former Algerian army officer now living in France, expertly depicts a country succumbing to cruelty but buoyed by its people's hope in the future. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

An Algerian police chief grapples with a cloudy crime and a delicate departmental challenge. The literary melancholy maverick Supt. Brahim Llob's narration expresses is usually pro forma, but here his ennui has an edge of desperation. With crime down and his department running smoothly, he should be happy. Instead he's restless and bored until grim, generally reliable detective Lino suddenly starts blowing off work. At length Llob's superiors take notice and request, then demand, that Llob do something. In the middle of this crisis comes an urgent appeal from Professor Allouche, a brilliant psychoanalyst Llob has always admired now stuck in an asylum after a stint in prison on (probably trumped-up) charges of subversive behavior. Allouche firmly warns of the imminent release from prison of SNP, a prolific serial killer poised to kill again. Allouche's reputation as a loon undermines Llob's attempt to get the prison to hold SNP a little longer. Although Llob keeps watch on the building where SNP lives, he can't prevent a murder there. Meanwhile, Llob learns that Lino's erratic behavior stems from his romance with a manipulative woman he won't give up. His rival for the lady's affection is local power broker Haj Thobane. When the strongman barely escapes a gunman who kills his driver, Lino becomes the prime suspect in the murder. This prequel to Khadra's Algerian Trilogy (Autumn of the Phantoms, 2006, etc.) surprisingly caps the series, adding a psychological depth and narrative breadth worthy of the author's mainstream thrillers. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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