Title: Red Karma - Jean-Christophe Grangé - book
Summary :
" An investigation as bloody as it is thrilling." Paris Match
Hervé, Jean-Louis and Nicole could have been heroes of May 68. They will be much better: heroes of their own destiny.
While Paris is on fire and blood, that the Fifth Republic is tottering on its foundations, the body of a young girl is found, naked, mutilated, in a yoga position. Jean-Louis attacks the investigation - he is cop. Hervé and Nicole assist him - they are friends of the victim.
Maos, hippies, yogis... Everything is there. The trio questions, gropes, and soon finds out: the motive for the murders - for there have been others - is at the end of the world, in India. From Calcutta to Benares, the adventurers go back in time and space, until, finally, they discover the astonishing truth on the banks of the Ganges, among the dilapidated palaces and the burning dead.
Is that all? No: the final word, the one that will give the story its full coherence, will be spoken in Rome, beneath the gilt and purple of the Vatican...
Hervé, Jean-Louis, and Nicole could have been children of their century. They will be much better: children of their own karma.
A blood-red karma, like a heart ready to burst.
With more than twenty novels, most of them adapted for film or television, Jean-Christophe Grangé occupies a special place in the French thriller landscape. By writing The Promises (Albin Michel, 2021), it opens a new field, where History questions the fascination of Evil. Red Karma continues on this path and joins the great novels of French literature.
