Noir

This book is set in France, 2027. The National Party are in power. One man wanders the streets of Paris haunted by the recollection of a young woman's bloodied corpse and tormented by the possibility that he was her murderer. The man is bemused at changes to his neighbourhood and with no idea what has occurred in his absence, he stumbles into an unrecognizable brave new world, only to discover that he has not been away from the city for days but for twelve years. Driven to discover his own history he rushes 'home', but his wife recoils from him, the neighbourhood he loves is disturbingly hostile and when he looks in the mirror, he sees nothing. Frightened of even his own reflection and alarmed by his beloved nation's decline into extremism, he flees the secret state police in an attempt to unravel the terrible secrets of his own past and his country's history. Chilling and uncomfortably timely, 'Noir' is an electrifying novel about political responsibility and moral choice.