Notes
Affairs of State by Dominique Manotti was initially published in France as Nos fantastiques années fric (Our fantastic cash years).
Another critique of the behaviour of the rich and powerful, this time, Manotti fictionalises the activity of François de Grossouvre, one of President Mitterand’s close advisors.
Publisher’s Synopsis
A call-girl whose black book lists her elite international clients is found murdered in an underground garage; a plane bound for Iran laden with illegal arms disappears from the skies over Turkey, and the president’s closest adviser Bornard, head of a controversial Elysee security unit, manipulates the system with consummate ease – and illegality. Until the day when rookie investigator Noria Ghozali determines to untangle the threads which bind these events together. In doing so, she penetrates the Elysee’s innermost system, confronts the workings of money and corruption within government, and in the process, is forced to combat the institutional – and overt – racism which repeatedly stalls her.
Read a full review of Affairs of State by Dominique Manotti at Mrs Peabody Investigates.
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