Cynthia Lelague is a journalist by day
and a vigilante, self-styled ‘F-Woman’, by night,
when she hunts down the sex criminals who terrorise the
streets of Los Angeles.
On catching them, she trusses them up and
leaves them for the police to find. After an encounter with
her, these miscreants tend never to offend again, and F-Woman
becomes a popular heroine, the subject of frenzied adoration
in the city of superstars. But the sinister Dr Holocenter,
chief psychiatrist of the LAPD and in charge of sex crime
investigations, becomes obsessed with bringing her to his
rather different version of 'justice'. He pursues F-Woman
with single-minded mania.
A thrilling cat-and-mouse drama ensues,
culminating in a spectacular, terrifying and hilarious climax.
Though written in English, F-WOMAN was a bestseller and
a critical sensation in France and Germany, but has never
before been published in the UK. It is a gloriously unpredictable,
unclassifiable and most of all enjoyable book by a writer
poised to gain the recognition he deserves.
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