by Donald E. Westlake · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070410736
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«Château en Esbroufe» is the mystery and humour novel by Donald E. Westlake, published by Gallimard in paperback (259 pages, in French).
Westlake sets out an absurd premise: robbing a castle in the heart of Paris whose stones hide gold and jewels. The novel describes how to organise the heist and the mistakes to avoid for it to go well, with an ironic tone in which international thieves need to master several languages to understand each other.
The novel was originally published in English as «Castle in the Air» (1980), translated into French by Janine Hérisson. This 1999 French edition belongs to the Folio Policier collection.
For readers of crime fiction and crime with humour, and for fans of Donald E. Westlake looking for a heist story full of irony.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.
