The Night of the cats boots

the Night of the cats boots is the second Roman black published Frederic H. Fajardie.

More than 30 years after its writing in 1977, it remains one of its most appreciated black novels of the public.

Editions

1979 : Phot' Eye, collection " Sanguine" ;
1982 : NéO (News Oswald editions), collection " The mirror obscur"
1984 : NéO (News Oswald editions), collection " The mirror obscur" (republication)
199…: the Roundtable, collection Small vermilion
199…: the Roundtable, collection Small vermilion (republication)

Adaptation as a Cartoon

2006 : Casterman writings (drawings of Boris Beuzelin)

Presentation

(Summary presented in the data base)

Paris, 1977. France giscardienne concretes the landscape and emmerde, the first punks shake the culture installed… and Stephan and Paul damage their first PMU. In these finishing years 1970, all contributes to radicalize these two former servicemen life income civil, experts in explosives: dislike of the dominant ideology, the absence of hopes and prospects… and then the meeting for Jeanne with which one and the other will fall in love, each one with her manner. By passion for it, to offer a kind of revenge to him on the nasty tricks and humiliations passed, the two men, to blows of actions clandestine and explosions in cascade learnedly carried out, will build the legend of the " Cats bottés" , this gang of plastiqueurs that nothing nor nobody can stop. The Hillocks Chaumont, the Sacred Heart, none the symbols of the bad taste and the middle-class order seems to be able to escape the destroying fury from the three accomplices, however tracked by the best sleuthhounds of the police force. Until they are caught with the Renault factories of Boulogne-Billancourt; the mad dash of the " Cats bottés" becomes a business of State then…

Others

Official site of the author: Frederic H. Fajardie

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