About the book: 2017 / Criminals found stabbed to death in the vicinity of a French town, while according to documents they were serving time in a local prison... Brutal murders of young people women in Hollywood... Violent deaths and gang violence in Maryland... Three intricate crime plots add up to the epic story of a once successful writer whose life collapses when a criminal environment and his own cowardice take away those closest to him. Events take place in different decades and are reproduced in the style of three great masters of the action genre.