"Basically, Harry, how do you become a writer? "

"The truth of the matter Quebert Harry" is a captivating novel, whose power comes primarily from a story particularly well built more than the style of its author. Behind a police investigation into a crime of passion, thirty years after the fact, is developing a compelling metaphor between boxing and writing. The book is written also as a boxing match, sources many twists throughout his rounds. The reader, like the characters in the story, graze several times the knockout, but come without hesitation to take up the last page.

The book of Joel Dicker also profiles resulted particularly from America and its contradictions, which makes its charm and fascination. In a few sentences sent well, put in the mouths of his characters, is justice - "That's the beauty of law in America, Goldman: when there is no law, you invent. And if you dare to look for lice, you go up the Supreme Court agrees with you and publishes a stop in your name: Goldman against State of New Hampshire "(page 54) - or political -" To govern the America, it takes balls. And elephants have bigger balls than the donkeys, that's how it is genetic "(page 73) - which are evoked with humor and realism. The novel is also registered in specific historical moments: the end of Nixon and even the advent of Obama, with a sharp eye on the profound changes in the country during that period.

The central theme remains that of writing: "Basically, Harry, how do you become a writer? - By never giving up. You know Marcus, freedom, aspiration to freedom is a war in itself. We live in a society of office employees resigned, and we need to get out of this mess, fight both against himself and against the world. Freedom is a fight every moment of which we have little awareness. I will never resign myself "(page 145). But without a great story of friendship and love another, even deeper, the book of Joel Dicker would not have the strength that is his. "The truth of the matter Quebert Harry" is ultimately a true successful novel, bursting with ideas, always exciting and whose reading gives an undeniable pleasure.