Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight (USA 2023)

From the Publisher:
From an Edgar award-winning British crime novelist, an Inspector Castang thriller that "has it all-politics, sex, metaphysics" (The New York Times).
It's a quiet night at the Police Judiciare in Detective Castang's provincial corner of France when a prominent politician stumbles in, claiming he was in a car accident he can barely recall, with a passenger who is his mistress-and is very likely dead. But when the unorthodox inspector's astute investigation leads him straight into the heart of a political conspiracy, the stakes are suddenly higher for Castang-and for the fate of the French Republic.

"Exhilaratingly rich in wit and humanity. Indignant at the right things." -- Detroit News

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight. A Henri Castang Mystery. Early Bird Books / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504090315 (December, 2023), eBook, 5115 KB (ca. 328 p.), $15.99.

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight (2001)

From the Publisher:
Replete with the volatile tensions of a political thriller, Freeling introduces the reader to the nebulous, frightening world of conspiracy. Henri Castang, renowned police inspector, is called in to investigate a car accident involving a French politician and his mistress. When Castang uncovers a top-level plot linking industrial and political leaders, he takes the law into his own hands with what turns out to be incredible consequences.

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight. A Henri Castang Mystery. House of Stratus, ISBN: 1842328573 (January, 2001), 231 p., £6.99, $11.50.

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight (USA 1983)

From the Publisher:
"WOLFNIGHT has it all -- politics, sex, metaphysics." -- John Leonard, New York Times
WOLFNIGHT
An investigation of a car accident involving a prominent French political figure and his mistress leads police officer Henri Castang to uncover a top-level conspiracy among high industrial and political leaders, and forces him to take the law into his own hands.

"Exhilaratingly rich in wit and humanity, indignant at all the right things." -- Detroit News
"A superior police procedural that never fails to keep one excited." -- Washington Post
"No one writing in the field can equal Freeling's depth and variety." -- Newsday
"Freeling is the only major crime writer who can, for all his individuality, be classed with Simenon." -- New York Times Book Review

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight. A Henri Castang Suspense Novel. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0394713818 (May, 1983), 200 p., $2.95.

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
Wolfnight is the newest of Nicolas Freeling's books featuring Henri Castang. It is, in many ways, the most successful, the most exciting, and the most tightly plotted of that series thus far.

As is always the case with Freeling, Wolfnight is more than a police procedural; it is a fascinating story of police officers who are faced with politicans' attempts to manipulate them and steer them away from solving a crime, from doing their jobs.

Castang, confronted with an absorbing and complex right-wing conspiracy, finds himself and his career unexpectedly at risk. Can he pursue justice while still protecting himself and his family -- two goals that may not be reconcilable?

Castang has never been more attractive than he is in Wolfnight when he finds himself hunted, ensnared and nearly seduced by an enemy far more daring than we have met to date. In Wolfnight, Nicolas Freeling has written a novel of contemporary intrigue and politics, as well as a moving portrait of a policeman caught in a universal and timeless web.

Nicolas Freeling was born in London and raised in France and England. After his military service in World War II, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, working as a professional cook in a number of hotels and restaurants. His first book, Love in Amsterdam, was published in 1961. Since then, he has written numerous novels and non-fiction works. His most recent books have been Castang's City, the fifth Henri Castang novel, and Arlette, the second in a series about the widow Van der Valk. Mr. Freeling was awarded a Golden Dagger by the Crime Writers Association in 1963, the Grand Prix de Roman Policier in 1965, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America, Inc., 1966.

Mr. Freeling lives in France with his wife and their two children.

Jacket illustration by Vivienne Flesher

Nicolas Freeling: Wolfnight. A Novel of Suspense. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982, ISBN: 0394522664, 200 p., $12.50.