Description
For Commandant Verhœven, life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irène.
But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery. Worse still, the press seem to have it in for him — his every move is headline news. When he discovers that the killer has killed before — that each murder is a homage to a classic crime novel — the fourth estate are quick to coin a nickname… The Novelist…
With both men in the public eye, the case develops into a personal duel, each hell-bent on outsmarting the other. There can only be one winner — whoever has the least to lose…