Erik Ketezer is a veterinarian in Normandy, but he spent his youth in Courvilliers, a former communist stronghold on the outskirts of Paris. Back in his hometown to investigate the death of a friend's brother, he discovers the state of decay of the city. The economy is dominated by drug trafficking, which is organized within the municipal team: hundreds of kilos of cannabis have been discovered in the technical center of the town hall, headed by a notorious delinquent. Unexplainable impunity prevails, covering the acts of nepotism, the false jobs, the bribes, the abuses of social goods of all kinds. Meanwhile, the city goes to the water, the municipal facilities are deteriorated, the lifts do not work more than the garbage collection, rats swarm ... --Gallimard.
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