This is a fabulous, brief novel subtitled 'A Crime Thriller' and winner of a number of French awards. Patience Portefeux is an Arab translator for the Paris police, a widow of over two decades, and completely buried by the cost and stress of maintaining her failing mother in a nursing home. Because she hears the plans of drug smugglers and knows of the police plans to stop them, she has a bird's-eye view of France's drug trade and manages to inject herself into the middle of it. Through a series of believable coincidences, she is able to place millions of Euros worth of hashish in her basement and sell most of it off. There are wonderfully told stories throughout this delightful novel, which apparently is being made into a motion picture.
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