Set in Thailand, this suspenseful thriller features
a fictional young journalist named — like the book's author — Mischa Berlinski, who finds himself at the center of a mystery involving the death of an American anthropologist.
In this
fictional version of the end of his political career, Francois Mitterrand meets an ambitious
young journalist named Antoine Moreau who draws the president into a conversation that soon evolves into a major discourse on life, death, politics and morality.