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Smoking Kills

Smoking Kills

Laurain, Antoine
Lalaurie, Louise Rogers

Paperback

HumorGeneral Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1805333631
ISBN13: 9781805333630
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Published: May 5 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.05 Depth: 7.73
Language: English
In this cozy crime novel with a witty, Parisian black-comedy twist, anti-hero Fabrice can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime

Hilarious, formidable―and essential packing for any French Summer holiday -- The Daily Mail

A brisk black comedy . . . makes cigarettes seem seductive again, even to committed non-smokers -- The Guardian

How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette?

When headhunter Fabrice Valantine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to undertake a course of hypnotherapy to rid himself of the habit. At first the treatment works, but his stress levels begin to rise when he is passed over for an important promotion and he finds himself lighting up again--but with none of his previous enjoyment.

Then he discovers something terrible: he accidentally causes a man's death, and, needing a cigarette to calm his nerves, he enjoys it more than any other previous smoke. What if he now needs to kill someone every time he wants to properly appreciate his next Benson and Hedges?

Unwilling to return to the numbness of a life without pleasurable smoking, Fabrice launches into a life of crime, finding ever more original murder methods--including the use of a poisonous Ecuadorean frog.

A blackly comic story of addiction and transgression, this is also an exploration of the human need for fulfillment, and the lengths we will go to in order to find it. In the end the book provokes us to question the limits we place on ourselves, and the true definition of joy.

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