Stéphane Marchand

Face Mort

Death Face

October 15, 2020
Thriller
464 pages
140 × 210 mm
19,90 €
9782265143975
978-2-2651-4397-5
																Stéphane Marchand, Face Mort
																Stéphane Marchand, Face Mort

How far are we willing to go for peace?

Second Lieutenant Georges Kabla, a graduate of Polytechnique, is doing a traineeship at the Alluets-le-Roi radio centre, which is actually a listening base for the DGSE. His mission? To take care of the configuration of a particularly sophisticated facial recognition software, nicknamed Death Face. But when the latter triggers an alert on a video, events take a different turn. The young lieutenant decides to do a more thorough search. A minute later, the phone rings: the special advisor to the director general orders him to stop everything.
Thousands of kilometres away, assigned to clandestine missions consisting, without official orders, of eliminating French jihadists who must under no circumstances set foot in their country of origin, Maxime Barelli, a captain in the special forces, advances in a permanent battle between what she is and what she accomplishes. But the conflicts surrounding her will soon take on an exceptional dimension when she discovers that a new kind of deadly weapon is being developed. A weapon as elusive as the air and threatening France…

The author

Stéphane Marchand is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École nationale de la statistique et de l’administration économique (ENSAE). Already the author of several books including investigations and essays, he is also a journalist. In particular, he has worked in the foreign service of Le Figaro and is now editor-in-chief of Pour l’Eco.

Strong points

A novel which, through fiction, tackles with talent subjects as sensitive as they are topical: the armed conflicts which weaken many North African countries, the French who go off to do Jihad, terrorism…

A thriller that is strikingly realistic: a terrifying race against time in which the author cleverly immerses us by delivering just the right amount of contextualization and explanations. The balance is perfect: the information serves the plot without ever slowing down the action!

Each character is built with finesse, Stéphane Marchand refusing to be a Manichaeist. 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.

October 15, 2020
Thriller
464 pages
140 × 210 mm
19,90 €
9782265143975
978-2-2651-4397-5