On NE Peut Pas Tout Avoir (Ldp Policiers) (French Edition)

E n cette fin de printemps 1990, Ivor Tesham, étoile montante du gouvernement de Margaret Thatcher et ardent coureur de jupons, décide d’offrir à sa maîtresse un cadeau d’anniversaire mémorable. Il manigance ce que l’on appelle une sex aventure . Il la fait enlever en pleine rue. Elle est consentante, bien qu’elle ne soupçonne rien. Ligotée et bâillonnée, il la fait livrer à domicile. Mais tout ne se passe pas comme prévu... La mort très médiatisée de la séduisante Hebe déclenche une enquête qu’Ivor, jeune ministre ambitieux, souhaite éviter à tout prix. Le scandale est étouffé mais la mort d’une deuxième femme met Ivor au pied du mur : il n’arrive pas à fuir les souvenirs qui le hantent... Ruth Rendell revient avec un remarquable thriller psychologique. [...] Une histoire qui mêle sans manichéisme la politique, le sexe et la mort. — Blaise de Chabalier, Le Figaro littéraire. Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter--a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe--the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call "adventure sex." It's the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It's all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn. After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specic details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered--and his political future from being destroyed by scandal. Like a heretic on the inquisitor's rack, Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see. The Birthday Present is a deft, insightful, and compulsively readable exploration of obsessive desire--and the dark twists of fate that can shake the lives of even those most insulated by privilege, sophistication, and power.