The Occupation Series
Crime thriller series set in Occupied Paris
Living under the shadow cast by his experiences in World War One, Eddie Giral is a Paris police detective forced to come to terms with the Nazi Occupation of the city.
Negotiating a path between resistance and collaboration, occupier and occupied, Eddie possibly faces his greatest challenge in overcoming his own inner struggle in asking what justice is when the ruling order holds alien values. The trouble is that the notion of justice itself becomes as dangerous, blurred and confused as the times.
And Eddie’s morality, ever on unreliable foundations, will be questioned again and again as the ravages of Occupation steadily grind both him and the city down.
The Unwanted Dead
Paris, Friday 14th June 1940.
The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe.
Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.
But there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is responsible for the murder of four refugees. The unwanted dead, who no one wants to claim.
To do so, he must tread carefully between the Occupation and the Resistance, between truth and lies, between the man he is and the man he was.
All the while becoming whoever he must be to survive in this new and terrible order descending on his home.
The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the globe.
Paris police detective Eddie Giral – a survivor of the last World War – watches helplessly on as his world changes forever.
But there is something he still has control over. Finding whoever is responsible for the murder of four refugees. The unwanted dead, who no one wants to claim.
To do so, he must tread carefully between the Occupation and the Resistance, between truth and lies, between the man he is and the man he was.
All the while becoming whoever he must be to survive in this new and terrible order descending on his home.
"A thoughtful, haunting thriller."
Mick Herron
"Such a powerful and morally nuanced crime novel."
Andrew Taylor
"Historical crime at its finest."
Vaseem Khan
"Lloyd's Second World War Paris is rougher than Alan Furst's, and Eddie Giral, his French detective, is way edgier than Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther. Powerful Stuff."
Sunday Times Crime Club
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