Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid FrancoβArab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. Sheβs laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyoneβs heads above water.
Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps ahead of all other authorities, Patience makes a life-altering decision that sees her intervening in β and infiltrating β the machinations of a massive drug deal. She thus embarks on an entirely new career path: Patience becomes βthe Godmotherβ.
This is not life in the French idyll of postcards and stock photos. With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayreβs bestselling novel shines a torchlight on a European criminal underground that has rarely been seen.
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Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
All Identifiers : goodreads:45420431, isbn:9781760641610
Single Author : Hannelore Cayre
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Sorted Author by LN, FN: Cayre, Hannelore
Title Length : 013
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-08
Record ID : 8914
Uncomma Author : Hannelore Cayre
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