Description
Simenon is at the top of his form in this story of a sexual obsession and its consequences.
It all begins with the accident. It is brutal, instantaneous-a busload of children turned into a blazing mass. Joseph Lambert was coming from the other direction, driving in the middle of the road, one hand between the thighs of Edmonde, his secretary. He does not stop. From that moment they are accomplices. No one saw them. They re- main silent as an investigation begins.
Simenon traces the gradual disintegration of Lambert's world, of the man himself, under the pressure of public outrage and guilt.
"...an indefinable atmosphere-and it is this that makes 'a Simenon' unique. There is a real sense of tragedy, of human waste, of the beauty that could have been... THE ACCOMPLICES is a complete
success!" -Saturday Review
"Chair-edge excitement.... The Belgian-born writer...may well be the best psychological novel- ist alive!" - Cleveland Plain Dealer
ISBN:0156026708
