A man wakes up at the bottom of an abyss, in a hostile environment with two strangers and his loyal dog as his only unfortunate companions. He is chained at the wrist, one of the other two men is chained at the ankle and the third is free but his head is covered by a horrible mask that will explode if he moves away from the others.
They will have to push themselves to the limit in order to understand who brought them there and why. Another urgent question rapidly arises: how far will they have to go to survive?
- Franck Thilliezs fans will rediscover the atmosphere of his earliest novels.
- In this secluded environment, both stuffy and glacial, Franck Thilliez skillfully describes body reactions and attempts to dissect the human soul when confronted with extreme situations
- Franck Thilliez proposes a frightening story outside the scientific community.
Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Readers Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007.
"A huis-clos that is both stuffy and chilling at the same time." Ici Paris