Background
Jean-Christophe Grangé was born on July 15, 1961, in Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France.
2010
Jean-Christophe Grangé and Lika Minamoto at the Montblanc Culture award ceremony on June 2, 2010.
Jean-Christophe Grangé, copywriter, journalist, screenwriter, writer, author.
Jean-Christophe Grangé, copywriter, journalist, screenwriter, writer, author.
Jean-Christophe Grangé, copywriter, journalist, screenwriter, writer, author.
(A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brin...)
A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brings one man face to face with his macabre past. Every year the storks would set off on their astounding 12,000-mile migration from Northern Europe to the remote Central African Republic. One year, inexplicably, puzzling numbers of them fail to return. At the invitation of a Swiss ornithologist, Louis Antioch agrees to investigate the mystery of the birds' disappearance. Before he can set off on his quest, however, his patron is found dead in bizarre circumstances.
https://www.amazon.com/Flight-Storks-Jean-Christophe-Grange-ebook/dp/B00755HTUC/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Jean-Christophe+Grang%C3%A9&qid=1594909895&sr=8-2
1994
(Pierre Niemans and Karim Abdouf, two highly unconventiona...)
Pierre Niemans and Karim Abdouf, two highly unconventional policemen, join forces to solve murders in the French Alps.
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Red-Rivers-Jean-Christophe-Grange/dp/1860466591/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=Jean-Christophe+Grang%C3%A9&qid=1594909895&sr=8-4
1997
(Anna Heymes, the wife of a top-ranking Parisian official,...)
Anna Heymes, the wife of a top-ranking Parisian official, suffers from amnesia and terrifying hallucinations. In an effort to understand her malady, a psychiatrist performs a series of tests, which reveal that she has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery, totally transforming her appearance. When, where, and why, Anna cannot remember. In the Turkish district of Paris, two policemen investigate the brutal murders of three women from the tenth arrondissement's underground workshops.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Wolves-Novel-Jean-Christophe-Grange/dp/0060573651/ref=sr_1_16?dchild=1&keywords=Jean-Christophe+Grang%C3%A9&qid=1594909895&sr=8-16
2002
copywriter journalist screenwriter writer author
Jean-Christophe Grangé was born on July 15, 1961, in Boulogne-billancourt, Ile-de-France, France.
A freelance special correspondent, Jean-Christophe Grangé eventually set up his own press agency – L and G. He has worked with other agencies, both French and foreign, on adventure and scientific reports.
Grangé was a copywriter and journalist, who worked for newspapers and magazines, including National Geographic, Paris-Match, and Sunday Times. During his ten years as a journalist, research into the paranormal and a lengthy study on the nomads of Mongolia left lasting impressions on him, and he was determined to incorporate them into his books. While Grangé's first novel, Flight of the Storks, published in 1994, was largely unnoticed, Blood-Red Rivers, published in 1998, became an international bestseller and later a film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.
The plot of The Flight of the Storks follows the storks' incredible 12,000-mile annual migration from Northern Europe to Central Africa. When, one year, they do not return, wealthy Swiss ornithologist Max Boehm hires Louis Antioch, a young French academic, to make the journey tracing the flight of the storks in an attempt to solve the mystery of the birds’ disappearance. Before Antioch can begin his trip, Boehm dies of a heart attack under suspicious circumstances. The police suspect murder and diamond smuggling is involved. From there, the plot follows the storks' flyways through a Bulgarian Gypsy encampment to an Israeli Kibbutz and into the jungles of Central Africa. Soon after the book's publication, Grange was contacted by the movie industry to write screen adaptations because of the novel’s cinematic qualities.
In Blood-Red Rivers, a mutilated corpse is found wedged in a crevice on a rock face outside Guemon, a university town in the French Alps. Superintendent Pierre Niemans is sent from Paris to investigate. He is an ex-commando with a brilliant mind but cursed with violent fits of temper. At the same time, another rogue cop, Karim Abdouf, who was brought up on the rough streets of Nanterre, is investigating the desecration of a child’s grave in a local cemetery. When a third body is found, high up on a glacier, the paths of the two men cross.
In The Stone Council, Grange incorporates his passion for the nomads of Mongolia into a story that leaves the thriller genre and ventures into the fantastic. Grange had traveled the Mongolian-Siberian border following an indigenous tribe, which was so isolated that it managed to escape the repression of both the Soviet and communist Chinese governments. Grange was especially interested in the shamans and their ritual healing magic. The Stone Council begins when Diane Thiberge adopts a little boy in Thailand. Soon, there are attempts on the boy's life and encounters with the paranormal. As Diane follows the thread of circumstances that lead to the past, and to the Mongolian taiga, she begins to understand the Law of the Stone Council, the point of original combat where man, animals, and the universal spirit are one.
The Empire of the Wolves, which was adapted as a motion picture, "has quite a bit to recommend it," commented Booklist reviewer Frank Sennett. Anna Heymes is a Parisian homemaker happily married to an administrator on the city's police force. Gradually, however, Anna's life of domestic bliss and work at a chocolate shop becomes less and less stable. Friends become strangers, and she finds haunting familiarity in the faces of strangers. She finds odd scars on her face and scalp that suggest radical cosmetic surgery, but she has no memory of any such procedures. While Anna ponders the mystery of her seeming amnesia, police detective Paul Nerteaux investigates the murders of three immigrant women who worked in the city's Turkish quarter. At first, suspecting a serial killer, Nerteaux and his colleague Jean-Louis Schiller soon realize that the culprit is no clumsy serial killer but a calculating assassin from the Turkish mafia. As the two storylines intertwine, Anna discovers that her loss of memory also blinds her to the presence of old enemies, and the investigating policemen become involved in dangerous espionage and murder plots.
Jean-Christophe Grangé is also a screenwriter and has recently written the screenplay for Switch, directed by Frédéric Schoendoerffer (2011).
(Pierre Niemans and Karim Abdouf, two highly unconventiona...)
1997(Anna Heymes, the wife of a top-ranking Parisian official,...)
2002(A journey to the green inferno of the African jungle brin...)
1994