Retribution Road
by Antonin Varenne, translated by Sam Taylor
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Pub Date 9 Mar 2017 | Archive Date 19 Jul 2018
Quercus Books | MacLehose Press
Description
Burma, 1852. Arthur Bowman, a sergeant in the East India Company, is sent on a secret mission during the Second Anglo-Burmese War. But the expedition is foiled - his men are captured and tortured. Throughout their ordeal, a single word becomes Bowman's mantra, a word that will stiffen their powers of endurance in the face of unimaginable suffering: "Survival". But for all that, only a handful escape with their lives.
Some years later in London, battling his ghosts through a haze of alcohol and opium, Bowman discovers a mutilated corpse in a sewer. The victim appears to have been subjected to the same torments as Bowman endured in the Burmese jungle. And the word "Survival" has been daubed in blood by the body's side. Persuaded that the culprit is one of the men who shared his captivity, Bowman resolves to hunt him down.
From the Burmese jungle to the slums of London to the conquest of the Wild West, Antonin Varenne takes us on a thrilling journey full of sound and unabated fury, reviving the lapsed tradition of the great writers of boundless adventure. Sergeant Bowman belongs to that breed of heroes who inhabit the imaginations of Conrad, Kipling, Stevenson . . . Lost soldiers who have plunged into the heart of darkness and will cross the globe in search of vengeance and redemption.
Advance Praise
“Antonin
Varenne’s Retribution Road is part
Bernard Cornwell, part John le Carré and all of a hell of a read. Few authors
have the chops to take on a historical epic, a serial killer thriller and an
intimate character study but Varenne’s latest novel should place him at the
very top of every reading list”
Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries
“This hybrid
of war novel, serial killer thriller and Western is one of the most captivating
reads of the year” Der Spiegel
“Wonderfully gritty and thrilling right down to the last page” WDR2
“This book confidently follows on from the works of adventure novelists like Jack London and Joseph Conrad” Presse am Sonntag
“Antonin Varenne heralds the return of the great adventure novel. Magnificent” Marie Rogatien, Figaro magazine
“An adventure story, a crime novel, a war story and a western... This book is a magnificent achievement” Thomas Delecroix, Page
“Unique, hair-raising, jam-packed, shocking, even unsettling, the excellent Retribution Road is a new sensation” Clémentine Thiebault and Mikaël Demets, Le Monde
"A great adventure story… The excellent Retribution Road bears the mark of Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson… Antonin Varenne has dealt a masterstroke” François Busnel, L'Express
“A literary firework: Antonin Varenne has written one of the most thrilling, most original books of the year” Julien Bisson, Lire
“A flamboyant adventure story ... a powerful novel that poses new questions about male violence” Livres Hebdo
“Remarkable
... A novel that will haunt you long after you finish reading it” La
Revue
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780857053749 |
| PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
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