Hunger and Thirst, Koudero Mickaël

"THIS CENTURY BELONGS TO THE DEVIL."

Paris, June 2015. In an apartment resembling a chapel, a young woman slit her wrists. Before committing the irreparable, she tried to tear out her eyes. Even stranger were the wads of crumpled papers on which she had scrawled the same name: Nosferatu. A Romanian word referring to the undead, to vampires, and to the Devil.

A former investigative journalist, Raphaël Bertignac connects this to the discovery, a few months earlier, of the body of a young undocumented Romanian man in a construction parking lot. Drained of his blood. Half-eaten. His organs ripped out. Two seemingly distinct cases. And yet...

Cannibal, Devil, organs—words with animalistic undertones that compel Raphaël to investigate in Paris, Prague, and all the way to the depths of Romania. In these forbidden territories, he will understand that beneath the ashes of the 1989 revolution and the fall of Ceaușescu, a threat was born. Intimate. Cannibalistic. Savage. Hunger and thirst.