When wet, the long tail looks slimy, as though it is a different animal, a snake."Īlex attempts to escape while Commandant Camille Verhoeven tries to solve the mystery of her kidnapping before it's too late: all he knows is that a woman was abducted from the street. "A wet rat is even more terrifying than a dry one: the fur looks dirtier, the eyes beadier, seemingly more vicious. To say too much would be to give away the horrors of Lemaitre's horribly well-thought-out kidnapping, but here's a taster of Alex's thoughts. She's almost convinced, and then she's bundled into an anonymous white van, taken to an abandoned warehouse and subjected to an ordeal that at times is too disturbingly awful to read, let alone imagine. The eponymous heroine, beautiful and alone, tries to tell herself that she isn't being watched by the man across the street. I f Winston Smith's Room 101 nightmare in Nineteen Eighty-Four proved too disturbing an image for you, then it's probably best to steer clear of Alex by Pierre Lemaitre, the first thriller by this popular French author to be translated into English.
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