When the Commissioner raises ...

The cover says it all: Lux Tenebrae, Giacometti and Ravenna, is a "thriller", furthermore, published in the Black River collection. This labeling guarantees in principle the purchaser suspense-player, chills, short, thrills, immediate and repeated. The display is not lying in this case. The duo authors take us at full speed in two parallel adventures that can only delight lovers of crime fiction to esoteric resonances.

Symbols and rituals of Freemasonry today to those of ancient Egypt, the story we walk between two eras and two worlds. The reader gradually braiding the son of a police investigation, which led Commissioner Antoine Marcas in a small museum near Avignon, with those of the religious revolution initiated by the mystical Amenhotep IV aka Akhenaton, three millennia ago . No report a priori? No, except that from an ordinary search to flush out an Egyptian antiquities trafficking, our Commissioner is found embedded in a case to spatial and temporal ramifications qu'effrayantes also amazing. Antoine Marcas, handled by very special services, will rub madness and death up close, too close same. But we return to the Hereafter?

I had not yet met this nice policeman, right in his boots. Yet it is a recurring hero Eric Giacometti and Jacques Ravenna, who even his Facebook page. The process of composition of the novel, classic, we alternately jumping from one era to another, each sequence is obviously ending on a rebound that throws us into the next. The cruelties of the time of the pharaohs disputing the cynicism of modern reason of state, the wickedness of the world can blithely deploy all its pallet and stimulate intimate adrenaline makes us gleefully turn the 362 pages in the hope of salvation final.