Inhuman Resources: NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ERIC CANTONA by Pierre Le

Description: Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre, Sam Gordon A darkly compelling workplace thriller from the master of French Noir FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment.All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking.Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity.But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless.And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath. Notes Prix Goncourt-winner Pierre Lemaitre returns with this story of an ageing former HR executive sick of unemployment, offered an interview with a prestigious company and sacrificing his dignity, good familial relations and potentially his life for the twisted role-play games the company vet him with. A bleakly compulsive workplace thriller. Author Biography Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex. In 2013 his novel Au revoir la-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, Frances leading literary award. Review Lemaitre takes his sardonic skills to new heights with this dark, loopy thriller, which portrays the modern workplace as the last place a displaced soul would ever want to be. - Kirkus ReviewsThis is a fine literary thriller told in a wry, educated style with sly references to everybody from Hawthorne to Mailer. - BooklistA literary thriller whose plot twists, turns, backtracks, and loops like a medieval maze until one despairs of ever finding a way to a resolution. It is a puzzle palace, a funhouse of deception, where nothing and no one is what one first believes. - New York Journal of BooksFor noir to be good, one must plunge ones head underwater and come out just shy of drowning. Pierre Lemaitre has dared everything here. - Le ParisienA really excellent suspense novelist - Stephen King Long Description Alain Delambre is a 57-year-old former HR executive, drained by four years of hopeless unemployment.All he is offered are small, demoralizing jobs. He has reached his very lowest ebb, and can see no way out.So when a major company finally invites him to an interview, Alain Delambre is ready to do anything, borrow money, shame his wife and his daughters and even participate in the ultimate recruitment test: a role-playing game that involves hostage-taking.Alain Delambre commits body and soul in this struggle to regain his dignity.But if he suddenly realised that the dice had been loaded against him from the start, his fury would be limitless.And what began as a role-play game could quickly become a bloodbath. Review Quote "Unpredictability and truly insane characters is what kept me glued to Inhuman Resources ...readers looking for a crime fiction read with a corporate twist should add Inhuman Resources to their list of must-reads." -- Murder and Moore Promotional "Headline" A darkly compelling workplace thriller from the master of French Noir Details ISBN0857059904 Author Sam Gordon Publisher Quercus Publishing Year 2018 Translator Sam Gordon ISBN-10 0857059904 ISBN-13 9780857059901 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2018-09-06 Imprint MacLehose Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 400 Media Book DEWEY 843.92 Language English UK Release Date 2018-09-06 Subtitle NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES STARRING ERIC CANTONA Audience General NZ Release Date 2018-09-05 AU Release Date 2018-09-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:123835739;

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