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Equator
By (Author) Antonin Varenne
Translated by Sam Taylor
Quercus Publishing
MacLehose Press
3rd October 2019
3rd October 2019
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
Fiction: general and literary
843.92
Paperback
320
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 24mm
220g
1871. Pete Ferguson is a wanted man. An army deserter, hunted for murder in Oregon, not to mention theft and arson in Nebraska.
Taking the name of Billy Webb, he is hired by bison hunters, but leaves after a bloody dispute. He then takes the Comancheros Road, which he follows to Mexico, and then to Guatemala . . . Whatever he does, wherever he goes, Pete is a magnet for trouble and seems incapable of making the right choices. The violence that follows him keeps him away from those he loves: his brother Oliver, still on the Fitzpatrick ranch with Aileen, Alexandra and Arthur Bowman. It is a woman who will change his destiny, an Indigenous woman driven out of her lands. To save her, Ferguson will sabotage an attempted coup d'etat and together, they will go to the Equator that has become Ferguson's grail, and where the malevolent forces governing this world must finally be defeated.Antonin Varenne was awarded the Prix Michel Lebrun and the Grand Prix du Jury Sang d'encre for Bed of Nails, his first novel to be translated into English. His second, Loser's Corner was awarded the Prix des Lecteurs Quais du polar - 20 minutes and the Prix du Meilleur Polar Francophone.