The disillusion of a young reporter faced with the cynicism of the media.After a disappointing experience in Geneva, Nicole Sarlat, a young French journalists returns to Paris where she dreams of joining the news team of a prestigious daily. There she hopes to proudly exercise her profession with honesty and exactitude but, unfortunately, job openings are few and far between...
With luck she is able to obtain a free-lance job investigating the murder in Paris of an exiled Colombian ex-minister. She throws her heart and soul into the investigation, unaware of the traps that await her.
Soon confronted with the cynicism of a certain press, she will have all the difficulty in the world resisting the attractions of "reality TV".
Gérard Delteil fait désormais partie des auteurs incontournables dans le paysage du polar français. Journaliste free-lance, il se passionne depuis quelques années pour l'Amérique latine et on retrouve souvent dans ses romans la matière de ses enquêtes ou de ses reportages. Il a aussi un double, un personnage qui voyage de livre en livre ; Dominique Lubin, journaliste free-lance comme lui, qui fait ici une discrète mais déterminante apparition.