FRANCK SHARKO & LUCIE HENEBELLE

Syndrome E

Franck Thilliez

Can violence be triggered at will?

An anonymous film with a twisted and enigmatic scenario that deprives of sight those who watch it.
Five corpses found buried with their hands cut off, eyes and teeth pulled out and skulls cracked.
One and the same affair in fact, thanks to which Detective Lucie Henebelle and Behavorial Analyst Franck Sharko, so different and yet so similar in their perception of the job, will meet.
Their investigations will take them from the shantytowns of Cairo to orphanages operating in the 1950's in Canada, on the tracks of an unknown evil that shows we may all be capable of the worst...

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.

"The intrigue is dense and perfectly constructed. The author writes for the cinema and television, which is felt in his work: nothing is left to chance, eveything fits together perfectly and at a furious pace. The whole of it tinted with hint of dark humour that suits it impeccably." Page des Libraires

"By mixing science and neurology into the plot of this excellent thriller, [Franck Thilliez] pulls us into the complexities of the human brain, with all the turpitudes that it generates." Elle