He’s an artist and constantly sketches the victim, looking for something.

He’s 4-feet 11-inches tall and we hear frequently how people react to his short stature and how his legs dangle off chairs. By the start of Part 3 a lot of the main characters are dead and you wonder, how is the author going to keep this going? He does a good job of it. In Part 1 we have a victim who we learn in Part 2 is also a victimizer. There are two things that make this book a bit unique among police procedurals. She escapes pretty quickly in an ingenious way. At first I thought “these cage scenes will get tiring and repetitive.” I was reminded of another mystery I read where a woman was locked in some kind of decompression chamber and we had to read about her ordeal dozens of times through the whole book. The books start with chapters alternating between what the woman is undergoing and how the detective is trying to find her. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first? Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Alex of the title is a young woman who has been kidnapped, savagely beaten, and suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage. I’ll work from the book blurb so I don’t give away more than necessary. This book (#2 in the series) is rated 4.1 with thousands of reviews – that’s quite high by GR standards. The novel’s set in Paris, but the film will be English-language and set in an international location.This French author has a good police procedural series going: Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven. He soon learns that Alex – beautiful, resourceful, and tough – is no ordinary victim. The novel follows French detective Camille Verhoeven as he pursues clues and suspects following the brutal kidnapping of a young woman, Alex Prévost, on the streets of Paris. Leterrier is eyeing a start late this year or early next. The novel has franchise potential: It is the second of a book trilogy by Lemaitre known as The Commandant Camille Verhoeven Trilogy, with both Alex and its follow-up, Camille, winning the CWA International Dagger Award. Eclipse will fund development and production, and will handle worldwide sales. Straight Up Films’ Marisa Polvino and Kate Cohen, who acquired the novel rights, will produce with Carver and Diamond. The script is being written by David Birke, who’s coming off the Paul Verhoeven-directed Elle, the drama that bought an Oscar nomination for Isabelle Huppert.Īlex launches Eclipse Pictures, a production, financing and sales company formed by Benedict Carver and Daniel Diamond.

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Leterrier will direct Alex, an adaptation of the bestselling crime novel by French author Pierre Lemaitre.

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