419 - Will Ferguson

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Résumé :
From internationally bestselling travel writer Will Ferguson, author of Happiness™ and Spanish Fly, comes a novel both epic in its sweep and intimate in its portrayal of human endurance.

A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine.

A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa.

And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.

Lives intersect. Worlds collide. And it all begins with a single email: Dear Sir, I am the daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, and I need your help...”

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is 419,” the world's most insidious Internet scam.

When Laura Curtis, a lonely editor in a cold northern city, discovers that her father has died because of one such swindle, she sets out to track down—and corner—her father's killer. It is a dangerous game she's playing, however, and the stakes are higher than she can ever imagine.

Woven into Laura's journey is a mysterious woman from the African Sahel with scars etched into her skin and a young man who finds himself caught up in a web of violence and deceit.

And running through it, a dying father's final words: You, I love.”

Biographie:
How to Be a Canadian, co-authored with his brother Ian, was a Globe and Mail bestseller for over eighty weeks. His other books of non-fiction include Bastards and Boneheads and Canadian History for Dummies. His first novel, Happiness(TM), won the 2002 Leacock Medal for Humour and the 2002 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. He was also awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel 419, and the Crime Writers of Canada Award for The Finder. Will lives in Calgary with his wife, Terumi, and their sons, Alex and Alister.

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Sommaire:
Award-winning travel writer and novelist WILL FERGUSON is one of Canada's bestselling writers. His first book, Why I Hate Canadians was a bestseller and established him as an iconoclastic writer...