Olivier Norek: “I have a leasing life, I change it every two years”

“Walking along the corridors of a judicial police branch is to face what the man harbors worst in him,” writes Olivier Norek. He knows what he’s talking about: he was a police officer in Seine-Saint-Denis for fifteen years before turning to writing. A full-time novelist since 2013, he writes thrillers as deep as they are brilliant, which talk about the world, its cowardice, its compromises, its cynicism. Latest, released this spring: In The Mists of Capelans (Michel Lafon), which certainly takes us to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, but above all to the heart of the witness protection program, a brand new service in France. Olivier Norek is at the Livre Sur Les Quais in Morges for the next few days. Large format scan on the literature, the police and the state of France.