To learn more about Joseph Kessel and his extraordinary life. it plunges back into the atmosphere of the last century with its political turmoil, its great dramas but also in the record: that of Paris before the war and after the war, his thugs and Russian émigrés ... In short, it reads like a comic book Tintin: colorful characters, a hero always where you need it (or not it depends) and never get bored.