Ros Schwartz is the award-winning translator of some 75 works of fiction and non-fiction, particularly by contemporary Francophone writers, including works by Fatou Diome, Dominique Eddé and Tahar ben Jelloun. She published an acclaimed new translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit Prince in 2010 and is currently one of the Penguin Classics team involved in new translations of Georges Simenon. In 2009, she was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and has recently been awarded the 2017 John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence by the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.
It's 1987. Two prisoners, both Italian, break out of prison in a rubbish lorry. One heads for Paris, the other to Milan. The first Carlo, is killed in a shoot-out during a bank robbery - under suspicious circumstances. Frightened by the manhunt launched by Interpol, the second prisoner,...
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