Vida de Gérard Fulmard

Gérard Fulmard, an unemployed former flight attendant, decides to retrain his career and become a private detective. He searches for missing women. They entangle him to work on a shady matter related to a small political party. He finds a corpse and has to flee to slip away from the police. At the key moment he forgets to unlock the pistol... Nothing has just gone too well for him, or maybe everything has gone completely wrong. He is a textbook antihero. But Gérard is not the only bizarre character in this novel. We also have a politician who frequents brothels and looks at racy photos of his wife's daughter; a woman who kidnaps herself to advertise herself; a psychiatrist of dubious ethics; a taxi driver who picks up a bullet-wounded guy and complains that he is staining his seat, and even a particularly voracious shark and a murderous Soviet satellite... And real characters with terrible stories also appear, such as the Israeli singer Mike Brant, who committed suicide at the peak of his career by jumping from the window of his Parisian apartment, or that cannibalistic Japanese student who devoured parts of a fellow student after murdering her.