Chourmo with delivery to Ireland

Fabio Montale, driven to resign because he took his work in the northern districts too much to heart, goes back into service to search for two teenagers who disappeared on the eve of the new school year. Too sensitive and too clear-sighted, he finds himself confronted with the rise of the ‘rattle-shaking agitators of security’, with unemployment, drugs and fundamentalism of every kind.
‘Chourmo’ is the spirit of the chiourme, the old galley slaves. By extension, it is a state of mind that drives people to reach out to others, and Fabio Montale is its rightful representative. In Marseille, they seem to know all about galleys – hard times – with the Front National, Islamist extremists and the Mafia all in the mix.
Chourmo, the second part of Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseille trilogy, is dedicated ‘to the memory of Ibrahim Ali, shot dead on 24 February 1995 in the northern districts of Marseille by Front National poster-stickers’.