Luca, the seventh volume of the adventures of Sharko and Hennebelle, has just been published by Fleuve Editions. With this new thriller, Franck Thilliez delivers a top-notch investigation version 2.0.
In front of the new 36, now called Le Bastion, a man dies in the arms of Nicolas Bellanger, captain of Franck Sharko’s team. Sharko, who has become a commander, has been sent with his team into the Bondy forest where a body has just been found staged in a macabre way.
At the same time, a scandal shakes the country: a couple tried to buy a baby via a surrogate mother, something that is prohibited in France.
In an incredible way, these stories will eventually connect, and our investigators will find themselves at the heart of a completely crazy plot.
It is with great pleasure that we reunite with the team of 36 made up of Nicolas, Pascal, and Lucie. Sharko is now at the head of a whole group of investigators behind a desk, but this situation only half satisfies him; Sharko likes nothing better than to have his feet in the mud, wading around a crime scene.
A new investigator, Audra Spick, joins this whole crew, and her mysterious profile will intrigue not only the reader…
With Luca, Franck Thilliez once again mixes science and police intrigue and offers an original and fully credible thriller. Concerned with the realism of his novels, Thilliez anchors this one in a post-attack era that gives it a certain gravity.
Particularly intense, Luca nonetheless tackles major current themes: surrogacy and assisted reproduction as well as all the deviations that result when they are carried out clandestinely, Artificial Intelligence, hyperconnectivity and the risks of hacking, the place of social networks, how internet users can tip destinies, biotechnologies, transhumanism. The author thus offers a kind of episode of Black Mirror: horror flirts with madness, greed, and the voyeurism of users, always more alarming.
With its fast-paced plot, Luca is also a detailed, rich, intelligent, and human thriller. The themes addressed are not fiction; it is our world that Franck Thilliez describes, a world where everything is going off the rails, where the GAFA have an enormous presence, and where the enhancement of humans raises more and more ethical questions…
Don’t miss out on Luca, a brilliant thriller that will give you chills during reading and push you to reflect on the predominance of networks and the influence they can have on the masses.
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