Congo Requiem

Jean-Christophe Grangé, who recently stunned his fans with his top-tier thriller "Lontano," plunges the reader into the atmosphere of a blood-chilling investigation of a chain of mysterious ritual murders in his new novel "Congo Requiem"—murders that, like two drops of water, resemble those once committed in the Congo by the famous serial killer known as the Nail-Man. Erwan Morvan, the son and heir of Morvan the elder, throws himself into the Congolese jungles in search of the Ariadne’s thread that will lead the police to the suspect. As always with Grangé, "Congo Requiem" is a novel of action and, at the same time, a novel of intense passions, where long-standing hatred and an unquenched thirst for revenge are the flip side of love. Parents are not chosen, but the devil clearly chose the Mor­van family—and the death of the clan leader only fuels the deadly chase.