Used book – The Castle of Silence, Olivier Delorme

As my newspaper's special correspondent in Beirut, I was tasked with covering the foreseeable turmoil that the outbreak of the Gulf War - the first one - would cause. Tired of waiting, I decided to take a few days' vacation in Cyprus. Married to a wonderful woman, pampered by my mother-in-law, appreciated by my editor-in-chief, I had everything to lead a happy journalist's life, with just enough upheaval to keep me from getting bored... But on that superb island, where autumn is so much like summer, I was first struck by the crowing of a rooster. Then my skull was pierced by a cry, that of a mother whose son had disappeared in 1974 during the Turkish invasion of the north of the island. And that cry turned my life upside down. Relationship, job, girlfriend: this stranger, this recluse, this ghost I've never seen, blew up my entire existence. To the point of questioning my very identity. To the point of transforming my exclusive taste for women into a furious desire for men. To the point of taking hold of me, living through me and making me experience his suffering. It is this story, our story, that this book tells. That of a journey to the depths of terror. The kind of journey from which there is no return.