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Thursday 26 March 2015

Before the Crash


Having reached the not wholly unpredictable end of Michel Bussi’s enthralling new novel, After the Crash, I find myself confronted with  the facts of this week’s genuine air disaster in France, involving exactly  the same type of aircraft, the same deadly descent into a French mountain, a similar number of deaths on the same sort of routine  European flight.

Though the details and the focus of Bussi’s book are otherwise quite different, his readership, already estimated at 700,000, will now surely rise still higher.
26 March 2015

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