This is the Night They Come For You: A TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR

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Taleb is reluctant: he’d like to live long enough to make it to retirement and becoming caught up in this case does not bode well. My knowledge of Algerians’ experiences leading up to and after independence, right up to the present day, was sketchy at best and I found this book’s exposition fascinating, albeit more gruesome than I could have imagined.

This is the Night They Come For You - Penguin Books Australia This is the Night They Come For You - Penguin Books Australia

Superintendent Taleb , nearing retirement, is partnered with Secret agent Hidouchi, to track down corruption and Stephen Gray is trying to lay to rest the ghosts around his sisters disappearance and murder . An interesting period of the intertwined history of France and Algeria so full marks for Mr Goddard for alighting on little-known events to provide the setting for this story.Stephen’s sister Harriet disappeared in Paris in the 1960’s, she had links to Suzette’s father and to Zarbi. But Stephen knows more than he lets on, and he has a plan- a dangerous one, to finally bring those who murdered his sister to justice. And their determination to deny the Algerian people the freedom they claimed they were fighting for has soured every decade since. de Gaulle became annoyed and frustrated and secretly activated a “committee” to punish the Algerian protesters.

This is the Night They Come For You By Robert Goddard | Used This is the Night They Come For You By Robert Goddard | Used

With plenty of attention to detail regarding historical places and atmospheres of the time period, it's not difficult to get immersed in the story.When a software engineer inexplicably disappears, his wife and young son are left to unravel the clues he left behind. Summoned by his superior he is handed a job which forces him to work with the feared secret service, hunting down a former agent. Goddard’s masterful storytelling takes hold and never lets go, culminating in an electrifying finale.

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All his best novels are based around real historical events, and in this case it is the massacre of Algerian demonstrators in Paris on 17 October 1961.The story is set around the time of the 1990s in both England and Algeria, during the Algerian War of Independence. Goddard provides a harrowing and insightful look at the complex past and present with a France that could not accept that its colonial rule in Algeria came to an end with independence, intent on punitive and destabilisation strategies whilst continuing to profit from the oil and gas production in the Sahara.