Review
"Acid and brilliant... a new race of thriller" MARIE-FRANCOISE LECLERE, Point "A passionate, magnificently written novel which begins in an almost playful tone only to end in tragedy... this staggering tragedy of our time" Dauphine Libere "If this thriller is a success, it is because we know that the universe described isn't simply a pure fiction. It all happens today" Upstreet
Product Description
"Your career profile could be of interest to us. Would you please get in touch?" Jerome Carceville finds it impossible to resist such an e-mail, especially when the invitation comes from De Wavre International, one of the top head-hunting organizations in the world. He applies, and after undergoing a variety of searching interviews and high-level tests, he is eventually selected for a decisive final examination. The fifteen talented and driven finalists arrive at a hotel on an island in the middle of an Alpine lake. Only two of them have any realistic chance of the job, and when Del Rieco, the "games-master", informs them that the nature of the contest is simulated economic warfare, that their only weapons will be a computer and some strategic information, and that their competitors must be eliminated, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary recruitment drive...Frenetic, ingenious and totally up-to-the-minute, Michel Crespy has written the first thriller to prize open the competitive jungle of the corporate world.
About the Author
MICHEL CRESPY is professor of sociology at the University of Montpellier.
