Jerome Charyn, born in 1937 in the Bronx, master of thriller, scraping the slums of the city that never sleeps to find nuggets of humanity. François Boucq, born in Lille in 1955, smiling Stakhanovist of drawing whose expressionist line flourishes with as much ease in realism as in caricature. The author of Zyeux-Bleus and of Mad Marilyn met that of Bouncer and of Jerome Moucherot in the late 1980s. They published two cruel and grandiose tales, Devil’s mouth and The Magician’s Wife, then Little Tulip (2014), which focuses on Paul, a New York tattoo artist who survived a Kolyma gulag. The two accomplices resume this character in New York Cannibals.
Twenty years have passed. Azami, the girl adopted by Pavel-Paul, is a police officer. She became an extremely manly woman: by dint of lifting cast iron and absorbing steroids, she developed Herculean muscles, covered with tattoos. The maternal instinct that remains in her is satisfied when she finds a baby in a trash can. Obviously, this child did not fall from the sky. Stemming from misery, drugs and profit, from the exploitation of the weak by the strong, it is a stake in the complex part to which a bunch of twisted individuals is engaged. As for Pavel, he tattoos a 100 dollar bill on the abdomen of a poor guy (it’s supposed to bring him luck, you speak …) and finds a specter of the past, Nadya, this love of youth which he nevertheless had. seen the captive body of the Siberian ice …
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