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Penguin
August 2012
On Sale: August 16, 2012
384 pages
ISBN: 067002578X
EAN: 9780670025787
Kindle: B007V65TKW
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Mystery
Already a runaway bestseller in France, Syndrome E tells the
story of beleaguered detective Lucie Hennebelle, whose old
friend has developed a case of spontaneous blindness after
watching an extremely rare—and violent—film from the 1950s.
Embedded in the film are subliminal images so unspeakably
heinous that Lucie realizes she must get to the bottom of it
—especially when nearly everyone who comes into contact with
the film starts turning up dead. Enlisting the help of Inspector Franck Sharko—a brooding,
broken analyst for the Paris police who is exploring the
film’s connection to five murdered men left in the woods,
Lucie begins to strip away the layers of what is perhaps the
most disturbing and powerful film ever made. Soon Sharko and
Lucie find themselves mired in a darkness that spreads
across politics, religion, science, and art while stretching
from France to Canada, Egypt to Rwanda, and beyond. And just
who is responsible for this darkness will blow readers
minds, as Syndrome E forces them to consider: what if the
earliest and most brilliant advances and discoveries of
neuroscience were not used for good—but for evil. With this taut U.S. debut, Thilliez explores the origins of
violence through cutting-edge and popular science in a
breakneck thriller rich with shocking plot twists and
profound questions about the nature of humanity.
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