Used book – The Silent Circle: FEMME ACTUELLE Summer Novel Grand Prize 2008, David Hepburn

Grand winner of the Prix Femme Actuelle 2008 among 503 manuscripts. SUMMER NOVEL 2008.

Paulo COELHO: "a very contemporary debut novel. A great talented author has been discovered" Editors' comment: "An unyielding structure and sustained writing that takes you on a breathtaking ride and prevents you from putting the book down...the author's very personal style highlights the cold logic of the minds that developed an organization of terrifying efficiency. An almost guaranteed sleepless night for suspense lovers."

The book received an average rating of 8.42/10 across all reading sheets. (and an 8.15/10 for literary rating, also the best average of all books evaluated)

Some comments from the reading committee members Frédéric, 29 "brilliant, captivating, very accomplished, dense thriller...David Hepburn is a virtuoso of tension, surprises, strong emotions. The pleasure is there until the last page."

Françoise, 54 "a very realistic and very modern plot, cleverly mixing many ingredients: secret organization, cutting-edge technologies, adolescent prostitution, conspiracies..."

Sophie, 34 "fabulous moments of suspense...a masterful ending!" GRAND PRIX FEMME ACTUELLE 2008