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Flight Of The Storks
  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099448990
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $50.00

Flight Of The Storks



'A perfectly paced, beautifully written thriller' Daily Mail

A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past. Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances. Jean-Christophe Grang-'s uncompromising narrative develops at a nightmare pace from a Bulgarian gypsy encampment to a kibbutz in the Occupied Territories, to the African jungle, to Calcutta, where an appalling and gruesome truth emerges: the end of a mission that began with the Flight of the Storks-

  • Published: 15 June 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099448990
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $50.00

About the author

Jean-Christophe Grange

Jean-Christophe Grangé was born in Paris in 1961. Formerly an independent international reporter, he worked with magazines all over the world as well as with various press agencies before setting up his own news agency. Blood-red Rivers, his second novel, was made into a film - directed by Mathieu Kassovitz - with the title The Crimson Rivers.

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Praise for Flight Of The Storks

A first-rate thriller-blending Gothic surrealism-with tropical depravities-Recommended.

Guardian