Title: Vertigo - Franck Thilliez - book
Summary :
Some secrets are unspeakable, but would we be willing to die to hide them?
A man wakes up at the bottom of a chasm, in the heart of a hostile environment, with two strangers and his faithful dog as his only companions in misfortune. He is chained by the wrist, one of the two men by the ankle, and the third is free, but his head is covered by a terrifying mask, which will explode if he moves away from the other two. Who brought them there? Why? Soon, another question will impose itself, an imperative one: how far must one go to survive?
For his 10th novel, Franck Thilliez achieves a tour de force in this stifling and icy closed-door setting, where he plays at dissecting the human soul confronted with extreme situations. Without ever sparing his reader, manipulated until the last line, and, who knows, perhaps even more...
