Indeed, Peter Curling combines an innate sense of storytelling (rich stories and shares details with complex and believable characters evolving in addictive environments) to a wild imagination he brings to the world of design and 'rich and consistent intrigues.
All in the service of a humanism that is neither naïve nor Manichean.
The first volume of this series starts gently and then crescendo this story and prepares us for the climax of the second episode.
To read.