Fatal Recognition

Stéphane Marchand

How far are we willing to go for peace?

Second Lieutenant Georges Kabla is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, who is doing a traineeship at a radio centre, which is actually a listening base for the DGSE (France's external intelligence agency). He is in charge of setting up a particularly sophisticated facial recognition software, nicknamed Death Face. But when it brings out a highly confidential file, the special advisor to the director general orders him to stop everything.
Thousands of kilometres away, Maxime Barelli, as a captain in the special forces, is assigned to clandestine missions consisting of eliminating French jihadists who must under no circumstances set foot in their country of origin, Maxime Barelli, discovers that a deadly weapon, as elusive as thin air, is threatening France...

- Subjects that are sensitive and highly topical:
- The balance is perfect: the information serves the plot without ever slowing down the action!
- Special mention for Captain Maxime Barelli, a woman who evolves in a male environment with determination and character despite her cracks (a legacy of her personal history), with whom the reader will immediately empathize.

Stéphane Marchand is a graduate of the École polytechnique and its branch school for statistics, data science and machine learning He has worked in the international Dpt of Le Figaro and is now editor-in-chief for a magazine dedicated to Economics.