Released by Pocket editions on January 11th, “Le cri” by Nicolas Beuglet is an absolutely addictive thriller, driven at full speed, a true page-turner that flirts with the espionage novel and the adventure novel.
A few kilometers from Oslo, the Gaustad psychiatric hospital stands as a dark mass among the snowy pines. Called to the scene for a suicide, Inspector Sarah Geringรซn immediately senses that nothing adds up. Patient 488, thus nicknamed following the scarred numbers he bears on his forehead, has frozen in death, a silent scream on his lips. Subjected to an unrelenting countdown, Sarah will discover a dizzying truth about one of the questions that haunts each of us: life after death…
After the death of the mysterious Patient 488, Sarah, struggling with a painful separation, finds herself propelled into an investigation that will take her far from her native Norway… Drawn to France to follow a lead, Sarah meets Christopher, a French journalist, who will accompany her in her investigation. Through dynamic writing, the author offers us an action thriller, where calm moments are rare but just, and brings a daring reflection on a sensitive subject, finally knowing what lies after death…
Inspired by the MK Ultra project, an illegal project on mental manipulation and control, conducted by the CIA from the 1950s and kept secret for a long time by the Americans, Nicolas Beuglet constructs a crazy novel that is far from the classic detective novel one might expect at the beginning… His two heroes are endearing, with just enough darkness and mystery to intrigue the reader, and we follow Sarah and Christopher without difficulty in their quest for truth. Recalling in some aspects the thrillers of Franck Thilliez, Nicolas Beuglet adds a hefty dose of action to his novel, allowing neither the heroes nor the readers to catch their breath! And we find ourselves swept away in this thrilling and captivating intrigue!
