The sixth installment of the 36, Quai des Orfèvres saga, Terminal 4 by Hervé Jourdain takes us through the labyrinth of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, for a dive into an urban area full of tension…
The initial release of Terminal 4 was scheduled for April 2020, but due to the Covid crisis, it was postponed to the end of August, and Nice Premium has read it for you.
In this investigation, Hervé Jourdain allows us to reunite with his brilliant team: Lola Rivière, Zoé Déchaume, Guillaume Desgranges, and Hervé Compostel. But their last case, Tu tairas tous les secrets, left its marks. The group’s cohesion is no longer perfect; they are now assigned to anti-terrorism and, to be honest, Zoé and Lola are a little bored, as they thrive on action and the chase.
While heading to Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport for a case involving gold coins stamped with the likeness of ISIS, they come across a fire in the construction area of the future Terminal 4. Problem: in the trunk of one of the vehicles, there is a body. Zoé, against Lola’s advice, assertively takes charge of this case.
With Terminal 4, Hervé Jourdain leads us into Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, a true city within a city where a whole world revolves. An economic hub, it draws as many jobs as it does tensions, which crystallize around conflicts between taxis and clandestine VTCs, protestors, and economic and environmental issues. At the center of it all, the body of a young woman who was burned alive…
In this committed thriller, Hervé Jourdain allows us to discover the backstage of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, a central tourism hub known mainly for its shiny corridors amidst moving walkways and hurried travelers. It’s a very different place from the airport depicted by Hervé Jourdain—a darker one, where intrigues and rivalries abound.
Through the author’s writing, we feel the harshness of the place and the difficulty of balancing private life and the life of a cop; indeed, Hervé Jourdain does not forget to describe the personal lives of his characters to provide them depth and accuracy. Driven at a fast pace, Terminal 4 is an urban thriller in which the relationship between the heroines will be strained and the dissensions stronger.
