“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.
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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.