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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221100530
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 135 x 215 mm
The Punishment of Narcissus

Release date : 19/02/2004

Imagine someone telling you that your life on earth will come to an end in a hundred days. You have thirteen weeks to pack your bags for the final voyage. It's not much, but maybe enough to try to block the infernal machine. Who wants the death of Hugo Bocarra,...

Imagine someone telling you that your life on earth will come to an end in a hundred days. You have thirteen weeks to pack your bags for the final voyage. It's not much, but maybe enough to try to block the infernal machine. Who wants the death of Hugo Bocarra, the playboy of Paris? Does someone want to prevent his marriage to Annabel Astorg, niece of the billionaire Gaétan Berlingerri? Who is the perverse hawk manipulating Echo, the girl of the fountain, the dove of ill omen constantly reappearing to remind Hugo of the imminence of the fatal punishment?For months a deadly heat wave has been oppressing Paris. The newspapers are calling it the "heat wave of the century." Minds are overheating and going into tailspins; common sense, courtesy, compassion have dried up as quickly as springs of fresh water. Harassed, threatened, panic-stricken, Hugo struggles wildly, but his life is falling apart; he manages to survive the days and prowls at night in fruitless search of Echo. She alone knows the truth and can save Hugo before it's too late. Before he goes mad. Before he finds out that he is already dead, has been dead for too long. The price to be paid, the blood price, the price of a life, that is his punishment, the punishment of Narcissus.

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EAN : 9782221100530
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 360
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont