The Union of Predators

Throughout France, and then across Europe, the police find the bodies of brutally tortured people, who suffered for a very long time before dying. Each crime scene is marked by the same mysterious symbol, yet it is clear that the murders were committed by different people. What is happening? Is a killer and his imitators on the loose? Is there a connection among the violent anonymous individuals, driven by an irresistible, primal instinct of a predator? Perhaps they are sending signals to each other? And where will the next tragedy occur? We might sleep more soundly at night if we didn't know... Detective thrillers and noirs by Maxime Chattam are selling in millions of copies in France alone and have become bestsellers in about two dozen other countries. Fans of Jean-Christophe Grangé and Franck Thilliez cannot help but appreciate the tightly twisted plots of his novels, where events race with full force from the first lines to a completely overwhelming finale, and none of the characters get off with just minor bruises. «I am very glad that I managed to traumatize you», — Maxime Chattam tells us, and he is almost not joking: in the novel «The Union of Predators», the first of his series about incredible crimes that the Paris investigative department has to unravel, abysses of evil are revealed.