Frédéric H. Fajardie

French libertarian writer of detective, adventure, historical, 'neo-thriller' and juvenile fiction, screenplays, film dialogue and radio plays, and columnist on 'Charlie-Hebdo'. As a student he was involved in May '68 and later a Maoist and member of Secours Rouge (Red Aid). He wrote his first novel 'Tueurs de Flics' (Killers of Cops) in 1975 (published in 1979) and was at the forefront of the néo-polar (neo-thriller) genre. Amongst his other books is 'Une charrette pleine d'étoiles' (Wagon full of stars; 1988) set during the Spanish Civil War.