Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War

Forty years later

and compassionate democracy-through fiction

history and travel but also anyone who enjoys the intoxicating power of words

Valentin Gendrot: Cop: a journalist infiltrates the police [2021] paperback LBIOG LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEPolice officers are obliged to give an account of every incident they are involved in. But what happened today will never be logged. Because that's what police solidarity means: what happens in the van stays in the van. Well, not always. Not this time. What really happens behind the walls of a police station? To answer this question, investigative journalist Valentin Gendrot put his life on hold for two years and became the first journalist in history