![]() Having witnessed the robbery, Anne is brutally attacked and left for dead.Ĭamille also witnesses the robbery, after the event, on a CCTV camera. ![]() Anne will be in the wrong place at the right time when an armed robbery is carried out in a jewellery store in the upmarket Galerie Monier. Those whose lives are about to be destabilised include the long-suffering Camille and his lover, Anne Forestier. This is typical of the Lemaitre style, marrying the immediacy of the thriller with the postmodern detachment of the literary novelist reflecting on the "timeliness of chance". ![]() Timing is everything.Ĭamille begins on Day 1 at 10am, with a brief meditation on how an event such as the one that is about to unfold, might destabilise your life. This makes for the kind of book that will keep you up late simply because you cannot bear to desert these poor people in their hour of need. Lemaitre lures us into the labyrinth on the track of intriguing characters about whom we have come to care, largely as a result of the awful trials they have been through. If you can get over the initial shock (I've learnt to "surf the prose" in such situations), the rewards are great. ![]()
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