Actually the very first novel Djian, and we already feel anything that will make the author's style throughout his work. All that will delight her devoted fans (which I am) and its strongest detractors who find all the arguments to kill the author. Women, alcohol, crappy shots, the fate of people who are going straight into the wall without airbag. How good a Djian of this ilk. Although sometimes large defects appear in these pages, all conforms to the talent of Philippe Djian. The author skillfully appropriated the codes of American literature and has cleverly turned them like a glove to get us to book after book building an essential work in the literary landscape.