Olivier Norek is a French writer of

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Biography

He was born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...

in 1975. He served as an aid worker in Guyana and the

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. He became a policeman, serving for 18 years and eventually rising to the rank of captain in the

Seine-Saint-Denis () is a department of France located in the Grand Paris metropolis in the region. In French, it is often referred to colloquially as ' or ' ("ninety-three" or "nine three"), after its official administrative number, 93. Its prefecture is Bobig ...

district. His crime novels have been bestsellers in France, and the first of his Banlieue trilogy, titled ''Code 93'', has been translated into English by

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and published by

Maclehose Press Quercus is a formerly independent publishing house, based in London, that was acquired by Hodder & Stoughton in 2014. It was founded in 2004 by Mark Smith and Wayne Davies. Quercus is known for its lists in crime (publishing such authors as El ...

under the title ''The Lost and the Damned''. The series features the fictional police detective Captain Coste.

References

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