Entre deux mondes - Olivier Norek
Having finished the Victor Coste SDPJ 93 trilogy (The Banlieues trilogy in English translation), Olivier Norek has taken in several standalone books in a greater variety of situations. The first, Entre deux mondes (Between Two Worlds), starts out in the complex contemporary real-world of global war, politics and espionage, and the impact it has on ordinary people. It's the kind of thing Gerard Seymour does so well, particularly in how what is happening in the Middle East connects with and touches on our shores. 'Our' meaning the UK but also as far as Norek is concerned and where he finds his own angle on the subject, with France. Where they often meet, in the dangerous crossing between one world and the next, is in the channel between Calais and the English coast. Entre deux mondes indeed opens with a situation that is turning for the worse in the Mediterranean, between Libya and the planned destination for 273 refugees on their way to Italy, before highlighting another t...