Seven Days
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Stephen King’s Misery and Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman comes an engrossing thriller about a monster who becomes a victim and a victim who becomes a monster. From Patrick Senécal, the Quebec author who has sold over a million books worldwide.
One sunny fall day, Dr. Bruno Hamel’s life changes forever.
His beloved seven-year-old daughter, Jasmine, is the victim of a tragic crime. Grief-stricken, Hamel sets in play a meticulous plan. He will kidnap the man responsible for his daughter’s death and make him pay horribly for what he has done. He manages to ambush a police transport and disappear with his target.
But Hamel hasn’t accounted for Hervé Mercure, a detective with a troubled past who becomes certain he can track down Hamel by studying clues in his past—and in the increasingly unsettling phone calls Hamel makes to his partner, Sylvie.
Both riveting and provocative, this daring thriller is an enthralling meditation on what it means to be human—and to battle the monster within and without.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Soon after the murder of the seven-year-old daughter of physician Bruno Hamel, the protagonist of this horrific thriller from Sen cal (Against God), Anthony Lemaire, a serial pedophile rapist, is arrested for the crime. Frustrated by the justice system and incensed by Lemaire's smile, Hamel decides to take matters into his own hands. Thanks to a clever plan, Hamel steals the police vehicle transporting Lemaire and takes the killer to a remote Quebec village where he has rented a house under a false name. By phone, he informs Det. Sgt. Herv Mercure, the book's one decent person, that he plans to torture Lemaire for seven days and then kill him. Amid explicit torture scenes, Hamel's sanity slowly unravels as he drinks himself into oblivion. Meanwhile, Mercure's colleagues lack the will to try to save the life of a man who has confessed to raping and killing several little girls. Sen cal asks big questions about the nature of humanity, but he shocks more than he inspires reflection in the reader.
