Adamsberg Commissioner is preparing to cross the Atlantic to be trained in a new research techniques that are developing their colleagues across the ocean. But do not know that the past has gotten into his bag and accompanies him on his journey. In Quebec you will find a young woman killed with three stab wounds and a string of murders all the same, committed by the mysterious Trident, a ghostly murderer chasing the young commissioner, forcing him to confront the one enemy to be afraid: self. Adamsberg this time has very serious problems
Amazing writer, amazing novel.
I can think of very few thriller writers I know who are able to begin a novel with a guy looking at a broken boiler and convert those lines into something fascinating. Fred Vargas, a writer with excellent press to which I had not had occasion to read a few days ago, offers superb detective novel composition and best prose, a literary level that gender-goers are not used to enjoy.
The story told in evocative name of "Under the winds of Neptune", Vargas proposes a criminal game as improbable as beautiful and fun, the pursuit of a dead murderer continues to claim victims with the help of his trident , Neptune psychotic whose past is closely related to the novel's protagonist, Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. With the help of his subordinate Danglard, Adamsberg go a path strewn with wonderful delusions, from the wiles of an old hacker to the ductility of an imaginative monstrous police scuffle through the favored comic in the encounter with the police in Quebec, whose cast of characters is not wasted. And is that Vargas has real talent for sketching characters in a few lines, sometimes crazy characters and sometimes melancholy that might have come from the pen of Daniel Pennac imbued with the spirit of Agatha Christie.
The plot is bizarre, as we have said before: we must consider here is not to do anything close to reality, this is fiction and fiction of the good. Vargas is dreamy and playful, even something peliculera and yet is forgiven because it is a great novelist, which offers a level of evasion lacking most of the writers of best-seller. And only therefore, worth following closely in his footsteps and be done with other books in the library and read Adamsberg, if possible, in its splendid original French.
DATA BOOK TITLE: "UNDER THE WINDS OF NEPTUNE"
AUTHOR: FRED VARGAS
EDITORIAL: READ ITEM
YEAR: 2008
SCORE ***** (five shots)
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