The details of the story is studded slush funds, bribery, embezzlement, abuse of social good, influence peddling, various malpractices of barbouziques collaborations, to such an extent that hardly find a clear boundary between legal capitalism and mafia activity. The avid reader will find here the Chained Duck in a serious style what he read over the years in the pages of his newspaper.
On the form, this big collective work of over 700 pages written by five journalists is homogeneous; it reads without difficulty despite its length. Small chapters written in this narrative sometimes overlap a little. They are full of detail and are each followed by a short bibliography that allows the reader to deepen a particular subject if necessary.
I have to point out a fault (and that keeps me from putting the maximum score): it is sorely lacking a good synthesis of all. But it might not be a task for historians, but for economists and sociologists.