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Year 2027. France is preparing for a presidential election that is very likely to be won by a television star. The strong man behind this candidacy is the current Economy and Finance Minister, Bruno Juge, for whom Paul Raison, the protagonist of the novel, a taciturn and unbelieving man, works as an adviser. Suddenly, strange threatening videos begin to appear on the internet -in one of which Minister Juge is guillotined- with enigmatic geometric symbols. And the violence goes from the virtual to the real world: the explosion of a freighter in A Coruña, an attack on a sperm bank in Denmark and the bloody attack on a migrant boat off the coast of the Pitusas Islands. Who is behind these facts? Anti-globalization groups? Fundamentalists? Satanists? As Paul Raison investigates what is happening, his marital relationship breaks down and his father, a retired DGSI spy, suffers a stroke and is left paralyzed. The event leads to the reunion of Paul with his brothers: a Catholic sister and sympathizer of the extreme right married to an unemployed notary, and a tapestry restorer brother married to a second-rate journalist embittered and twisted fang. And besides, Paul will have to face a personal crisis when he is diagnosed with a serious illness...