Superb mechanical ...

After "careful work" and "Alex", this is the third installment of the trilogy Verhoeven I just finished. True to and carried by specious talent quon knows him, Pierre Lemaître gives us here a new little wonder. The plot is constructed as a mechanical dhorlogerie: complex, precise, oiled, without defects. After the murder of his wife Irene, Verhoeven is confronted once again to violence lencontre his new girlfriend, Anne, who was beaten on the occasion of a robbery in the jewelry store where she had come for a watch. Verhoeven, hit again through a being who is dear to him, will take liberties with the procedure and get in default to try to find and reduce to impotence author steering and this beating. But there is no shortage of sinterroger the fact quun robber be so hard on a witness, that he has had several opportunities to kill her without success. This detail work that Verhoeven is not the end of his surprises. Everything is conveniently served by beautiful handwriting and alternating stories between the third person for the identified characters and the first person for the unknown robber. The outcome is the height of a well balanced suspense. An absolute must to finish to convince himself that Pierre Lemaitre is one of the greats of French thriller.