The unbuttoned, unkempt, unlikely fiction of Pierre Siniac is a slap in the face of the traditional crime novel, and The Collaborators is his best and most hilarious book...A noir set in the seediest backwaters of the French publishing industry, The Collaborators tells the story of a hapless drifter who, after years of not particularly heroic effort, finally manages to write a book. A good book? A bad book? Well, it’s complicated—and soon the complications he’s set in motion spiral entirely out of control. Praised by Pierre Bayard in How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, and finally available in English by one of our greatest translators, The Collaborators is both a sinister thriller and a comedy of outrageous proportions. Under the title Ferdinaud Céline, The Collaborators was published in French in 1997 to great acclaim.