Flic: the true story of the journalist who infiltrated the police

By Valentin Gendrot, Frank Wynne and Thierry Chavant

flic
(French noun, slang)
cop; police officer

Flic
(noun)
The gripping and groundbreaking work of French comics journalism.

What happens behind the walls of a police station? What kind of living does a cop make? And how does a culture of racism and violence become entrenched? Valentin Gendrot went undercover in Paris to find the answers — revelations that rocked France and led to a series of investigations, including an internal affairs case on Gendrot himself.

Flic is an exposé of a world never before seen by outsiders, an urgent story for our times, powerfully illustrated by the talented Thierry Chavant.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781922586926

Valentin Gendrot

Born in 1988, Valentin Gendrot worked on local newspapers and radio after graduating from journalism college, and carried out several undercover investigations — including working on a Toyota production line and in a Lidl supermarket — before joining the Paris police force.

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