A well struck ice

One of the mouths of hell looms mining abandoned well and freezing of Katie Llewellyn, Cripple Creek, Colorado town situated 3000 meters above sea level. Sunblade Timothy and Virginia, the two fallen angels of noir Elliott Chaze (1915-1990) will burn their wings and become damaged, in body and soul. Tim has escaped from prison. It backs for several months on a drilling platform. Rest at his hotel in Krotz Spring, Louisiana, he met Virginia, sensual bomb prostitute on the run after the dismantling of a call-girl network "She had lavender gray eyes and hair pale gold color appeared very flexible, gripping his head curls. '" While he denies it, Tim quickly declares his love to Virginia, thin wasp "Thou shalt not ever happy person, Tim 'Not happy permanently, I mean. Your love is easy to get and easy to lose. " The crossed lovers on the run mount a coup to hit the jackpot. The hijacking of an armored car requires thorough preparation in which nothing is left to chance except the guilt that torments because the killing of an innocent is not easy to forget Tim and Virginia, "When you s' imagine driving a knife into someone, the image is made entirely of flesh and steel, without bones. "
Timothy Sunblade place his story and all the actions are going through the prism of his gaze. Cold, methodical, analytical, Tim's speech is uncompromising. He says what he feels, unvarnished and without screen, putting the reader in the margins of history. It emerges no empathy for the characters and that is the limit of this bitter and hard novel. At no time does the reader sympathizes with the fatality and insults that affect the protagonists. However, the permanent tension between Tim and Virginia, their passionate and ambiguous relationship is a success at all times. Who will deceive the other? In what form? The fool's game is an unforgettable success. The new French translation almost 60 years after the 1954 captures the entire work in the substance and form. Built in six parts, the novel, about the classic themes, run, turning, femme fatale wife do no less Machiavellian circular path around the wells, real mouths of hell where all our inner demons roost. Note the superb coverage Payot editions illustrated by a photograph of Bernard Pesce.