“I met him one spring evening. I became his mistress. I bought the latex suit he was wearing on the day he died. I acted as his sexual secretary. He introduced me to firearms. He gave me a revolver. I extorted a million dollars out of him. He took it back. I slaughtered him with a bullet between the eyes. He fell from the chair where I’d tied him up. He was still breathing. I finished him off. I went to take a shower. I picked up the shells. I put them in my bag with the revolver. I slammed the door of the apartment behind me.”
A love story. Despite the humiliation, the whips, the latex and the bullets. Inspired by a tragic event, the murder of a banker, Régis Jauffret imagines how the story unfolded.
Circa l’autore
With Michel Houellebecq, Régis Jauffret is the most insightful and provocative French author. Born in 1955 in Marseille, his books are described as acerbic and written with a scalpel, stripping life to the bone. His recent controversial novels include Claustria, about the Josef Fritzl case, Rikers Island, about the DSK case, and LACRIMOSA also published by Salammbo Press.