Tropic Moon (New York Review Books Classics)

Newly translated for this edition. A young Frenchman Joseph Timar travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator Timar doesnt know what to do with himself and no one seems inclined to help except Adle the hotel owners wife who takes him to bed one day and rebuffs him the next leaving him sick with desire. But then in the course of a single night Adles husband dies and a black servant is shot and Timar is sure that Adle is involved. Hell cover for the crime if shell do what he wants. The fix is in. But Timar cant even begin to imagine how deep. In Tropic Moon Simenon the master of the psychological novel offers an incomparable picture of degeneracy and corruption in a colonial outpost.