Yan Lespoux turns a real cocaine washup on the Atlantic coast into a comic crime novel
In "Les Amateurs", the Médoc-born writer imagines the chaotic fallout of a real 2019 discovery: more than a tonne of cocaine found along the Atlantic shoreline.
Yan Lespoux, a writer from the Médoc region, has published "Les Amateurs", a crime novel built around a genuinely strange episode: in 2019, over a tonne of cocaine washed up along the French Atlantic coast, a phenomenon nicknamed at the time a "marée blanche" — a white tide. According to Télérama, Lespoux uses that real event as the springboard for a comic, off-kilter tale of small-time, would-be traffickers scrambling to cash in on the windfall.
Télérama describes the novel as a "polar déjanté" — an unhinged crime story — that plays the incident for both its criminal stakes and its absurdity, following characters who are amateurs in every sense as they collide with a situation far bigger than they are.
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