The debut novel of a pioneering author of French crime thrillers. Mean, arrogant, na ve, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him. A death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role--and Butron's--in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the...