Bertrand Farge

Journalist Denis Robert sparked a storm in the world of European finance by denouncing the murky operations of banking firm Clearstream. His quest to reveal the truth behind a secret world of shadowy multinational banking puts him in contact with an ever-expanding anti-corruption investigation carried out by Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke. Their paths will lead them to the heart of a political/financial intrigue, which will rock the foundations of Europe and the French government itself.

When Anna disappears suddenly and without leaving a trace, the police feel it was probably deliberate. But her husband refuses to believe it. And rightly so, someone had tried to murder Anna. Saved by a local from the mountains, she wakes up in the Pyrenees, with no memory at all.

The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, also recounts the tormented conversion of its author, Victor Hugo, to the ideal of social progress.