# Rough Trade

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- Book: [Rough Trade](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominique-manotti/rough-trade) ([Rough Trade.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominique-manotti/rough-trade.md))
- Authors: [Dominique Manotti](https://www.bookquiver.com/dominique-manotti)
- Publisher: arcadia_parent_imprint
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-0812-922-2
- Published: 2004-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris - the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits, police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches nineteenth-century Economic History. " Rough Trade", her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year by the French Crime Writers Association.