The Alliance of Predators

Across all of France and in different parts of Europe, murdered people are being found—victims who were cruelly tortured, their deaths occurring slowly. Each crime is marked by one strange sign, but the killers are clearly different. What’s going on? Are the killer and his imitators acting together? Is there a connection between these anonymous brutal people driven by a wild, primal instinct? Maybe they’re sending signals to each other? And where will the next tragedy strike?

Judging by everything, it would be easier to sleep at night if you didn’t know… Detective novels and thrillers by Maxime Chattam became bestsellers in France and many other countries. Fans of Jean-Christophe Grangé and Franck Thilliez will appreciate these twisted, gripping novels where the plot moves from the first pages to a staggering finale—and none of the characters escapes with only minor consequences. “I’m glad I managed to shock you,” says Maxime Chattam—and it’s no joke: in “The Pact of the Hunters,” the novel opens up abysses of evil that must be uncovered by the Paris Investigations Bureau.