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Le Flambeur de la Caspienne
2020
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Habitué aux destinations calamiteuses, Aurel, le petit Consul, est pour une fois affecté dans un lieu enchanteur : Bakou, capitale de l'Azerbaïdjan, est une ville pleine de charme au climat doux, au luxe élégant. Mais la tranquillité d'Aurel sera de courte durée... Le chef de poste de l'ambassade semble décidé à se débarrasser de lui. Quel secret peut bien cacher cet homme brutal et autoritaire ? Y aurait-il un lien avec la mort de son épouse, récemment victime d'un tragique et mystérieux accident, et dont le spectre plane au-dessus de l'ambassade ? Il n'en faut pas plus pour qu'Aurel se lance dans une enquête plus folle que jamais. Ce qui ne sont au départ que de fragiles intuitions prendront, entre mafias locales et grands contrats internationaux, l'ampleur d'une affaire d'État.
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Jean-Christophe Rufin
Jean-Christophe Rufin
Author · 23 books

Jean-Christophe Rufin is a French doctor and novelist. He is the president of Action Against Hunger and one of the founders of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without borders). He was Ambassador of France in Senegal from 2007 to June 2010. Rufin was born in Bourges, Cher in 1952. An only child, he was raised by his grandparents, because his father had left the family and his mother worked in Paris. His grandfather, a doctor and member of the French Resistance during World War II, had been imprisoned for two years at Buchenwald. In 1977, after medical school, Rufin went to Tunisia as a volunteer doctor. He led his first humanitarian mission in Eritrea,where he met Azeb, who became his second wife. A graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Political Sciences) in 1986, he became advisor to the Secretary of State for Human Rights and published his first book, Le Piège humanitaire (The Humanitarian Trap), an essay on the political stakes of humanitarian action. As a doctor, he has led numerous missions in eastern Africa and Latin America. He is former vice-president of Médecins Sans Frontières and former president of the non-governmental organization Action Against Hunger.

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