35-year career in the CID Paris, Claude Cancès has seen it all, from the mundane to the anti-gang via Crim 'before becoming the boss of 36, Goldsmiths dock. In Here he tells us history and stories of the Paris police: the Bonnot gang, business Stavisky, Petiot, Ben Barka, Markovic and the business it had to be treated, Empain, de Broglie, the Irish of Vincennes, the attacks in 1995 ...
The book is immediately placed under the sign of Simenon one would have suspected, this sentence with emphasis placed on:
"Men of the Crim 'does not take themselves too tragic. They are not trying to be like the heroes of novels ... They never speak of intuition or instinct. A fortiori the word genius is it foreign to their vocabulary? No! These are trades. "
Georges Simenon , 1933
There are other allusions simenonniennes throughout the book. Thus, when in 1975 Claude Cancès landed in the Criminal "I expect to cross Maigret on the floor or in the grand staircase. In detective novels of Simenon is a loner that guy. He makes his merry way, looking for anything, pipe in mouth. Debonair. And it always ends. In fact, the job is not quite it. We do not only bump in the Crim ', we hump day and night, and success is not always the rendezvous. "
Considering the next move with a touch of nostalgia, the author notes that" to work with means modern Maigret would have changed the site, "that" [...] Computers have now replaced the legendary pipe de Maigret "and finally it comes to moving the" office of Maigret. It is indeed a hot topic ...
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