Les frères Letellier

Bay doesn't remember her house in west Australia, nor her garden on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she was fighting to save the oceans and that whales were her family. She doesn't recognize the faces that now look at her. Her mother is a mystery and keeps only a few photos and many books with her father's oceanographic knowledge. In the attempt to draw a past erased from her mind, she will encounter multiple versions of who she was, with hidden truths and quiet secrets.

"Al fondo, como si fuera la naos de un templo sagrado, se hallaba la máscara. A pesar de estar envuelta en una tenue neblina, su resplandor verde era como un faro que atraía las miradas. Estaba situada en una ménsula de piedra que a Nicole le recordó el pequeño oratorio en el que habían comenzado la aventura. Al verla, la mujer sintió que nada había más importante en el mundo que el hecho de hacerla suya, y se dio cuenta, sin necesidad de mirarlos, de que sus dos compañeros tenían el mismo pensamiento..."

Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game. Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: his former boss and the beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree. Now there's a killer on the loose, a long list of possible suspects, a city in panic, and nobody in charge...

The first three novels by Michel Houellebecq, which launched him into literary stardom and placed him at the center of the polemic. The three are characterized by resentful and lethargic shipwrecked beings of our consumer society.