Very disappointing, far from "Jack Barron and eternity" or "Iron Dream" The author gives a distorted image of the people he describes, be it French, American, African or Arab. His knowledge of geopolitics is roughly that of an average American (ie not much) and extrapolations are unrealistic and sometimes wacky ... The hero is unfriendly and incapable of succeeding "exploits" so "abracadrabrantesque". There are no romantic spring, only a succession of political fiction situations, with no real link between them, treated in a willingness to prove something (the French are all Petain, the Americans are big bad, African poor manipulated arrears and Islam is the future of the world ...) It would not be worth more than one star if not that writing remains solid and professional, which we always try to go a little further and say that the plot is finally going to start ... Personally I stalled 3/4 of the book and I laminated the last paragraph which confirmed me in my opinion of the nullity of the scenario ...