Arène des Balkans #[nn]

A blood-stained arena floor bathed in harsh light, ringed by a crowd pressing against chain-link fencing — it's a striking, unsettling image that sets the tone for this Franco-Belgian thriller from Philippe Thirault and Jorge Miguel. The tagline tells us that Frank Sokol fled a country at war, and twenty years later the ghosts of the past have found him again. Published by Les Humanoïdes Associés in 2015, Arène des Balkans promises a tense, atmospheric story where old wounds refuse to stay buried.