Roger Borniche, un romancier hors-la-loi: des histoires de flics entre enquêtes, livres et films

Actor, police inspector, private investigator: Roger Borniche’s life amid gangsters and criminals became popular in his novels. Non-conformist in the police service, he is a non-conformist author of detective stories, which he wrote after that his friend Alain Delon had suggested that he should write his memoirs. Rooted in true crimes, his books are neither works of fiction, nor autobiographies, nor archive chronicles. Genres are mixed both baffling and charming readers. The fluidity between reality and literary fiction is matched by the relationship between fiction and cinema in the adaptation of his first books: a back&forward movement between reality and performance, truth and fiction, real and fictional characters, novel and cinema.