The Continental Affair
A Novel

Henri had escaped Algeria during the country’s battle for independence. He’d been a gendarme, but the day he was called upon to question a man he’d known during his school days, he realised he didn’t want to be here, doing this, anymore. He decided to leave this country he’d considered home and thou......more

3 Stars for The Continental Affair (audiobook) by Christine Mangan read by George Weightman and Hannah Kelly-Turner. This is kind of a cat and mouse game set on a train. From Granada to Istanbul a woman is trying to hide the money that she has stolen and the man that’s trying to retrieve the money i......more

3.5 stars. A beautifully written, elegant slow burn of noir, but something about it was just off enough, like a fine wine with a faint oxidized whiff. Henri, a French Algerian, abandons his post in the gendarmerie in Oran at the start of the war of independence and flees to his mother's natal Spain.......more

Of Mangan’s three novels this is the weakest which is not saying that it is bad by any means. It’s just as atmospheric and sophisticated as her two previous novels and the writing is as good as I have come to expect. It tells the tale of a woman on the run being followed by a man whose motivation wa......more

Henri and Louise. Two strangers whose fates become entwined after a chance encounter. Their journey together commences in Granada, in the 1960s, and moves across the continent. These two strangers dance around one another, revealing hints of past lives while the present threatens to derail them at d......more