_ 1971: after an exemplary education, Jean-Claude Romand picks up the tray with honors.
_ 1975: without reason, Romand did not attend the second session of the second year of medical examinations. Yet he will tell his relatives have succeeded. A lie of life begins.
_ 1980: marriage with Florence, a distant cousin who have studied pharmacy, persuaded her to marry a doctor, a scientist at WHO.
_ From 1980 to 1993: Birth of Antoine and Caroline. The couple lives with the savings that the entourage entrusts Jean-Claude, supposed to grow.
_ 1993 imposture about to be discovered, Jean-Claude Romand murdered one by one of his family members.
As he traces the career of this singular criminal, the author tries to understand the personality. Good son, good husband, good father, good friend, Jean-Claude Romand will always be given to others what they wanted from him, becoming a monstrous liar by nature, taking the form desired by the speaker. Today, in jail, his attitude model prisoner probably be worth it to obtain parole in 2015, after 22 years of imprisonment. Is this mean?
Although moderately impressed by the style of Emmanuel Carrère, I enjoyed the right distance that has kept with him: while keeping most of his compassion for the victims, it is close enough criminal to glimpse the nature of evil, if evil. It is not unscathed travel, and oppression persists long after the last page, while, as the author, we consider "the great white void that was gradually dug inside him up that it remains that this appearance of man in black, this abyss from which escaped a cold air stream. "
