Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. Jean-Christophe Grange's uncompromising narrative develops at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy encampment to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories, to the African jungle, to Calcutta, where an appalling and gruesome truth emerges: the end of a mission that began with the Flight of the Storks...
Born in Paris, Jean-Christophe Grangé must be considered to be one of the most exiting authors of the new French Polar (the French name for crime/detective fiction) scene. Until he started writing fiction Grangé wrote for quite a considerable amount of magazines all over the world before becoming an independent international reporter and setting up his own news agency. Grangé's first book, "The flight of the storks" (1994), was almost ignored unlike the second one: "Blood-red rivers" (1998). Despite coming on the market very quietly, it became an international best-seller and later a movie as well as triggering sales for his first book. Grangé's third effort "The Stone Council" has recently been translated into English.
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