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EAN : 9782260017417
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 252
Size : 130 x 205 mm
An Accidental Man

Release date : 03/01/2008

Un homme accidentel is a love story with a murder mystery backdrop. One of the main characters is a very ordinary, married police detective. He and his loving wife have a child on the way. While investigating the murder of a hustler...

Un homme accidentel is a love story with a murder mystery backdrop. One of the main characters is a very ordinary, married police detective. He and his loving wife have a child on the way. While investigating the murder of a hustler found dead in Beverly Hills, a clue leads him to a famous Hollywood actor, the “it boy” of the moment, named Jack Bell.

Jack denies ever knowing the hustler, but there is an overwhelming chemistry between these two while they speak. The detective doesn't know what to make of it having never experienced such feelings before. Jack picks up on this chemistry mixed with confusion and begins to seduce him. They fall into a very passionate love affair kept secret from the rest of the world. This could ruin Jack's career, and obviously shatter the detective's family.

In an intimate moment, Jack confesses to having committed the murder. The detective therefore needs to decide if he'll do his job and arrest Jack, or do everything to protect this man he all of a sudden loves. And in doing so, he risks destroying everything.

"Philippe Besson has succeeded with this intense and dazzling novel." L'express

 

"...as for the style, it is flowing and fluid, as usual. One glides on the surface of the sentences, the words...it is the best of Besson."   Le nouvel observateur 


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EAN : 9782260017417
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 252
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Julliard