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After Blood Red Rivers and Flight of the Storks , Jean-Christophe Grangé breaks through the barriers of the traditional thriller. As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last found a meaning and purpose to her life when she decides to adopt a five-year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she christens Lucien. A nightmare ensues, however: on her return to France, Lucien has an accident and is declared to be brain-dead. A series of murders make Diane…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
After Blood Red Rivers and Flight of the Storks , Jean-Christophe Grangé breaks through the barriers of the traditional thriller. As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last found a meaning and purpose to her life when she decides to adopt a five-year-old Thai boy, Liu-San, whom she christens Lucien. A nightmare ensues, however: on her return to France, Lucien has an accident and is declared to be brain-dead. A series of murders make Diane realise that her son is no ordinary child, but the prey of sinister and paranormal forces.
Autorenporträt
Jean-Christophe Grangé, 1961 in Paris geboren, arbeitet als freier Journalist für "Paris-Match", "Gala", "Sunday Times", "Observer", "El Pais", "Spiegel" und "Stern". Seine abenteuerlichen Reportagen führten Grange zu den Eskimos, den Pygmäen, den Tuareg und in die Mongolei.
Rezensionen
"A hair-raising thriller - The Stone Council encompasses telepathy, hypnosis, psycho kinesis, state secrets and recondite forms of killing - I loved it" Anita Brookner 20020614