Andrew Rosenheim

The chase looms large in the best new thrillers

It’s a brilliant page-turner device and works perfectly in stories set variously during the Algerian war of independence of the 1950s and Norfolk and London in the present day

A French soldier in Oran in 1962, during the Algerian war of independence, in which Christine Mangan’s book The Continental Affair is set. [Alamy] 
issue 23 September 2023
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