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|title=Loser's Corner

|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)

|publisher=MacLehose Press

|date=December 2014

|summary=An intriguing if not wholly successful mixture of meditative historical novel, thriller and characterful action story. Think perhaps along the lines of Graham Greene for the content and you're halfway there.

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Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes in the sport, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' (or an unkind abbreviation of that), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.

[[Category:General Fiction]]

[[Category:Historical Fiction]]