FRANCK SHARKO & LUCIE HENEBELLE

Bred to Kill

Franck Thilliez

Evolution is an exception. Extinction is the rule.

A biology student who was working on her thesis about the relationship between laterality and violence is found dead. The police discover that, before her death, she had visited eleven violent criminals in prison - all of whom were left-handed.
From the Alps to the Amazon, Bred to Kill explores the origins of violence in DNA and Genetics. A highly intertwined plot... as is the relationship between Sharko and Henebelle!

Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Readers Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007.

"Crichton fuses with True Detective in a hammering hard-science thriller where the heart of darkness lies not in the soul, but in the genes. Thilliez engineers a winner." Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Infected trilogy.

"Scattering macabre clues, multiplying leads and dead ends, [Franck Thilliez] concocts a vigorous story, full of twists but with dazzling clarity in spite of its arduous scientific framework - the mysteries od DNA." Le Parisien