They waited for the novelist who would have the courage to tackle the theme of the Islamist threat in our banlieues.L'actualité is not the strong point of our authors who prefer thrillers prudently exploit hackneyed themes of serial killers to neos usual Nazis, the real bad guys for publishers tired .This is not the case of Marc Charuel who trample until blood Republicans taboos (zones of lawlessness, fanatical imams, dealers Maghreb, jihadists apprentices ...). And the blood it spreads in Nanterre, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco as if the author turned into tour operator of barbarism in just over 500 pages, sparing us no beheading of hostages, stoning of a young Christian and various executions islamo-mafieuses.Il adds great handling of the French secret services that attempt to infiltrate the terrorist network left to quarrel with their US counterparts as twisted as their allies in the Afghan valleys .L'auteur cleverly tries to delve into a rather attractive hypothesis but a conspiracy stranded by returning to the unexplained killing of an ordinary family .It is undoubtedly one of Marc Charuel trademarks loves revisiting various real facts defrayed chronic imagination to spice up the fate of his characters. The dialogues between the protagonists of this thriller are also one of the strengths of the novel, the author obviously loves power relations that he had experience in theaters of operation during its war reporting. The tense atmosphere is conducive to acting out and suspense. However some weak points exist because if the cinematic style (many flashbacks, punchy dialogues ...) is pleasant, the author neglects a little secret springs of his personnages.On Verdier asked how the convert has become the agent DGSE, his professional experience in his business and his father daily and husband before everything changes in family breakdown and prison.Tout as the other hero, the journalist who is going to butt the pieces of the puzzle secret war against terrorism .Personnages somewhat superficial which we know that the actions and reactions in a so twisted scenario that the reader loses some still holding the book so far .We also regret some improbabilities hardly pardonable to an author to field reporter reputation when it turns into a hideout for Al Qaeda messenger's house Verdier, just released from prison but likely under surveillance services against terrorism. Probably we would have liked fewer surgical details of other slaughters and kills more psychological depth to better understand these men lost in hatred, resentment and suicidal leaks.
