Also in paperback "Just Killing Time" in french "IL"
All is "too much" in IL , the new polar Sonatine Editions announced with a lot of superlatives as the nugget of the year. Too , the editorial history of this large pad 765 pages released in France eleven years after its publication in the United States . Initially a thunderclap in the middle of the overseas edition: in April 1991, Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books announce the acquisition auction of the first novel of a Derek Van Arman ( a nickname which does would actually not ... ) for the record sum of $ 920,000 , international rights not included ...

He said at the time that the author is a communications specialist working for various government security agencies . The big blow a farce when the prestigious finally decided not to publish " Just Killing Time " on the grounds that the sponsorship provided by the agent Derek Van Arman when negotiating to have , in this case assessments very laudatory of John Le Carre and Joseph Wambaugh , were simply invented ...

The event seems so absurd that some , starting with the person himself, suspected intervention by the FBI , the federal agency that has been subsequently ceases to harass Derek Van Arman, up until his charge for disclosure of confidential information .