A fter a series of "bad picks" on the shelves of thriller, I had the good surprise to come across a really tasty novel: reindeer hunting of Siberian Julia Latynina . (Actes Sud, Babel Black, 2008, 978-2-7427-9127-7).
A big and good noir novel, which depicts the fight between a consortium Siberian Metallurgical not very open collar and a conglomerate of opponents that include both the mafia gangs that local potentates, Former secret services, or a powerful bank near the power of the Kremlin. Among the barons of free enterprise using all means legal and illegal and Moscow apparatchiks who would like to silence those they despise Siberians and get their hands on their industrial empire, all shots are allowed to share and another. The headbutt to the burst of Kalashnikov, blackmail, insider trading, manipulation of laws with the use of offshore shell companies, you name it. And this portrait of Russia today is enough to make chilling, even from the perspective of fiction.
I sometimes had difficulty understanding the subtleties of dipping scams and machinations accounting, tax and stock but the mixture of different levels of the plot, ranging from the clash between big-arm on a vacant lot in the conversations scurrilous banking offices, through digital manipulation of speculative values, gives an undeniable richness this novel.
Incidentally, I would not judge the style by VO (my years of study of Russian language below), but the French version has a style that sometimes makes me wince in the choice of certain expressions.
With this Russian novel, the scenery and excitement are guaranteed, and I found, by reading the same kind of pleasure I found one, here twenty years, reading thrillers Russian Topol and Edward Fridrikh Neznansky A place like really red and A disappearance of high importance .
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