By Sébastien Japrisot
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Up until she regains consciousness in a petrol station bathroom with a freshly injured left hand and little knowledge of the attack she has endured, twenty-six year old Dany Longo thinks she knows her history and her place in the world. She knows that she has headed south from Paris in a Thunderbird taken from her boss without his knowledge, so is surprised when strangers insist that they have met her recently; a waitress in a café, a hotel clerk, even a policeman.
In increasing bewilderment, Dany thinks back over the events and decisions that led to her appropriation of the car and her ensuing impulsiveness. Desperate for answers, she is confronted at each turn with convincing evidence of a recent past she cannot remember. Why is she registered at a hotel in Chalon when she knows she was in Paris? How did she leave her coat in a café she has never visited? Why is there a dead body in the back of the car?
This is a classic psychological thriller by Sébastien Japrisot, originally from the 1960s, recently reissued. It is chilling, paranoid and highly addictive.