Vienna, May 1981. Alain Renoir, last descendant of a wealthy Parisian family, has behind it a cumbersome and violent past: former official of the Foreign Legion during the War of Algeria, a former far-right journalist, former undercover Services French secret. terminally ill because of a lung cancer that is ravaging contemplates ending her life with a last act of violence: the killing of F.C., an internationally renowned political man and embodiment of everything he hated in his life.
The novel recounts the last week of the protagonist, a shiny psychopath, according to a narrative scheme that mixes the experience with large contingent flashbacks that illuminate a bloody past, lacerating, problematic. Until final unpredictable.
In the realm of the mole is an original and intriguing philosophical noir that offers the reader a strong reflection on violence, on the folly of individuals and of history in general.