"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr
In this brilliant new translation of Georges Simenon's classic novel, a young man descends into a brutal world of crime "And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage . . . unable to cover the filth." Nineteen-year-old Frank--thug, thief, son of a brothel...