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The Bramard affair by Davide Longo: in the hills hides an old policeman

2024-02-22T11:11:56.420Z

Highlights: The Bramard affair by Davide Longo: in the hills hides an old policeman. Corso rose through the ranks to become Italy's youngest commissioner. Before breaking his teeth on the “Automnal” affair by investigating a series of victims killed between autumn and winter. All were between 25 and 32 years old, with a similar physique and hair… This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 66% left to discover. Flash sale -70% on digital subscription I ENJOY IT Already subscribed? Log in.


REVIEW - A dark novel whose hero, a retired commissioner, takes up an investigation that haunted him.


Davide Longo's novels are astonishing mixtures of darkness and humanity.

We had already verified this in the pages of

L'Homme vertical

or Un

matin à Irgalem

.

This is again the case in those of

L'Affaire Bramard

.

After a university professor and a military lawyer, the Italian chose to polish all the facets of a new complex hero as possible.

At 20, Corso Bramard wanted to join the police.

Exercise

“a profession made of logic, observation and knowledge of the elements”

.

“Observing life from a distance and reading, which basically amounts to the same thing, were the only activities for which he showed himself gifted from childhood

,” Davide Longo tells us again.

Corso rose through the ranks to become Italy's youngest commissioner.

Before breaking his teeth on the “Automnal” affair by investigating a series of victims killed between autumn and winter.

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