“Chronicles of the Detroit”: Rachid Boufous tells about Tangier

Tangier at the beginning of the last century, a cosmopolitan, sulphurous and secret city too.

An international hub for all trafficking and refuge for all wanted criminals. The characters in the book, some of whom have really existed, come together in games of power and money: intrigues, forbidden loves, disappearances, including that, suspicious, of a loyal collaborator of Sultan Moulay Abdelaziz.

In these Chronicles of the Detroit, the author brilliantly reproduces the feverish atmosphere of the Tangier region of the early 1900s, in a Moroccan city contested by foreign powers, but whose daily management escapes them.