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Faced with losing, the opposition engage the services of investigator Ron Grubb to locate some dirt on Shimmer. Yet Shimmer also has his secrets, and areas of neglect, such as a son in his twenties living in France. The incumbent Narcissus Shimmer seems a decent man, one whoвЂ™ll not stoop to personal attacks for votes, and one who employs former convicts as a point of principle, leading by example. Just what is it about the culture that holds such an appeal?ДЄ week before polling day a presidential election is too close to call. ItвЂ™s also noteworthy that this is yet another European thriller set in the USA.

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Unusually, therefore, for French albums, an entire series of eight books saw publication in a little over two years from 2004. The series allies the old sins with current technology, and from the beginning the different types of stories this concept prompted were scheduled to switch artists with every new sin. Nevertheless, it was a further seven years before he sold scripts regularly, and a decade before he began PandoraвЂ™s Box. As do so many European creators, writer Didier Swysen uses a single name alias, Alcante, and was talented enough to win an open competition for new writers held by Spirou in 1995.

In mythology PandoraвЂ™s Box was a repository for the evils of the world, here reinterpreted as the seven deadly sins, and when she opened it the sins were unleashed. ItвЂ™s an arresting cover image that opens this European thriller series, that of a baby with severe injuries, yet itвЂ™s simultaneously comforting by virtue of also clarifying that hospital care is occurring.

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