β Scribed by Laurent Binet
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer
'The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year... A joy' - Philip Hensher
Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.
But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language β an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.
Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight...
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After saving London, Seven and Silas are called to the colony across the pond, the former free states of America. With a ragtag team of slaves, politicians, criminals, and Abraham Lincoln, the must avert civil war and free the colonists ... even if it means Seven using risky magic.
"FrΓ©dΓ©rique Molay is the French Michael Connelly." βJean Miot, former head of Agence France Presse (AFP) Winner of France's prestigious Prix du Quai des OrfΓ¨vres prize for best crime fiction, named Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year, and already an international bestseller with over 150,000 copie
There's no rest for Paris's top criminal investigation division, "La Crim'." Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Si
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Welcome to the territory. Leave your metal behind, all of it. The bugs will eat it, and they'll go right through you to get it...Don't carry it, don't wear it, and for god's sake don't come here if you've got a pacemaker. The bugs showed up about fifty years ago--self-replicating, solar-powered