Action thrillers that start in the real world and never quite leave it.
We publish Stan Miro because his books do what a great thriller should: you can’t put them down, and you close them knowing a little more about the world.
His plots start from documented facts. A trafficking ring that reaches into the circles of power. A Chinese quantum computer. Mass surveillance handed over to artificial intelligence. He pushes them one step further, and sometimes the news catches up with him.
What keeps us reading is the balance. The action gives no respite, yet the characters carry weight: old wounds, a loyalty that costs dearly, silences that say a great deal.
Éditions Casoar
He grew up on the edge of the Huelgoat forest, in Brittany. At eleven, he lost his entire family. Raised far from home, he was trained in one of the most secretive special forces units in the world. When the series begins, he has settled in Pont-Aven to paint. That quiet life will not last.
A journalist was about to expose a trafficking network. He never got the chance. From Pont-Aven to Paris, from Tel Aviv to Riyadh, a race against time to find two little girls before they vanish under another name.
Reach the target, strike, disappear. But what the team uncovers goes far beyond anything they imagined: an operation designed to tip the balance of the world.
In a China where every camera can betray him, Gurvan Torn has nothing left but instinct. His escape takes him all the way to Xinjiang, where a resistance is looking for a spark.
Stan Miro writes from maps, plans and facts. His characters move through places you can visit, or read about in the papers.
The forest of giant boulders where Gurvan grew up. Where it all began.
The painters’ village, Gauguin’s village. Gurvan had found peace there.
An apartment, an investigation cut short.
Where Gurvan’s past comes back into play.
Money, influence, and the people pulling the strings.
A city at the crossroads, a protected target.
Tiananmen Square, giant screens, a jubilant crowd.
Western China, where anger is smouldering.
The places exist. So do the power struggles. The rest is fiction.
“You’re pulled straight into the action. It never stops until the last page. A mix of Taken and Jason Bourne.”
“Gurvan Torn’s story grabs you from the very first pages.”
“[…] devoured in one sitting… what suspense!”
“Not a single second of boredom.”
Excerpts from French readers’ reviews of the original edition on Amazon.fr, translated.
Publication is planned for spring 2027, between April and May. We won’t say more for now.
To hear when it comes out, the author’s newsletter is at stan-miro.com.