Twenty-six-year-old Dany Longo speeds out of Paris in her boss's exquisite Thunderbird. She's spent her Friday night working thanks to him; now she's stolen his car and headed for the sea.But this sun-kissed joyride soon spirals into a nightmare. Everywhere she goes, strangers recognise her dark glasses and the car: she came this way just yesterday. Then a corpse appears in the boot of the Thunderbird.Either she's being framed or she's losing her mind. She was in Paris the day before... wasn't she?



Sébastien Japrisot (4 July 1931 - 4 March 2003) was a French author, screenwriter and film director, born in Marseille. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Japrisot has been nicknamed 'the Graham Greene of France'. One Deadly Summer was made into a film starring Isabelle Adjani in 1983. A Very Long Engagement was an international bestseller, won the Prix Interallié and was later also made into a film starring Audrey Tatou in 2004.



Classic suspenseful noir



Japrisot might be called the Graham Greene of France



Utterly captivating, this is a perfect diversion for a sunny afternoon



The most welcome talent since the early Simenons



A cordon bleu mixture of suspense, sex, trick psychology and fast action



A disturbing, intricate and erotic novel



A riddle as captivating as it is terrifying



Oozes cool and uniqueness