This is the Night They Come For You

On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria’s troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country’s feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal.

But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago…

From the author of the BBC 2 Between the Covers hit, The Fine Art of Invisible Detection. ‘The world’s greatest storyteller’ – THE GUARDIAN