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Prepare yourself for some great insomnia, or some hell of a nightmare! With “Survivantes”, Toulouse-based Cédric Sire has created an absolutely terrifying new novel that you won’t be able to put down until the last page, and which he will present this Thursday at Fnac-Wilson.
We know, as soon as we open a Cédric Sire novel, that we are going to discover a crazy story, that we are going to be taken from one twist to the next, that we are going to meet characters offbeat… and we’re going to have a few sleepless nights! In “Survivantes”, his latest opus, published by Michel Lafon, we find everything we love about Cédric Sire, and more.
Four young women, four “survivors” returned from hell and the clutches of sadistic monsters. They get up and decide to regroup. The time for revenge has come… “The initial idea was that of women who are victims of predators and who, afterwards, are left to their own devices, confides the novelist. But after that? We hear too little of the suffering of the victims – very quickly, one tragedy chases the other, so these women create a support group and set out to find these monsters who have slipped through the cracks of justice…”
A scary journey from Toulouse to Bangkok
Awarded numerous literary prizes and compared to the master Stephan King by the magazine “Lire”, Cédric Sire perfectly masters the codes of the thriller, which he knows how to twist to lead an extraordinary story and take the reader on a journey from Toulouse to Carcassonne, from Nantes to Nice and Bangkok. Between impeccably “fair” dialogues and a twisted storyline, the author of “Vindicta” surprises us on every page, plays with our nerves and signs one of his best novels – if not the best. “I say it sincerely: I think that each book I write is superior to the previous one. I refuse to produce a novel of which I would not be absolutely proud. I invested myself completely in this one and it is in line with what I published previously, with a very sustained pace and, on the periphery of the story, I developed themes that were close to my heart such as sisterhood, the flaws of justice…”
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This Thursday, the man who is today one of the leaders of the French thriller will be able to see that the fervor of his readers is intact. His rock star appearance and dark charm are not unrelated to the fascination he exerts among his readers, and which he claims he cannot explain. “I just want to give readers strong emotions with my book,” he explains in his soft voice. “It’s not less that’s important: it’s the book.”
