โ Scribed by Cayre, Hannelore; Smee, Stephanie;
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid French-Arabic translator who specialises in police phone taps. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is wedged between the costs of raising her daughters and the nursing home fees for her ageing mother. She's laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in - and infiltrating - the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes 'the Godmother'. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians more real than life itself, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre's bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underworld that has rarely been seen, casting a piercing and darkly humorous gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France.;Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1. Money is Everything; 2. Say, What Have You Seen?; 3. Where There's a Will, the Intrepid Jewish Woman Will Find a Way; 4. The Chameleon That Snoozes, Loses; 5. You'll Be Hungry Again in an Hour; 6. Talk Doesn't Cook Rice; 7. Mambo; Acknowledgements; Back Cover
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