1) This includes tyrant with his wife and children.
2) In his free time, he visits his father, floundering, walled up in silence, in an institute; or he replays the memories of the father, who was a famous spy during World War II.
3) In his work, in the service of the police archives, he suspects his boss to steal some files and playing a sick game with him.
The novel is well written, well constructed, addressing a variety of themes - but it was not enough to get excited about. On the one hand, the narrator is unfriendly and, secondly, some aspects of the plot does not seem to me credible. Therefore difficult to hang.