“The questionable dexterity I have shown in extricating myself from my existence suggests that I am anything but an example to follow.” That is putting it mildly. The narrator is a young outsider who has never sought to fit in. That does not stop him from finding it more convenient to place the entire responsibility for his failure on society. And, “as a cheerful sociopath”, he fully intends to make it pay dearly for the bill of his defeat. His plan? To infiltrate every social class in order to seek out a representative figure of this hated society each time. And kill them. In writing the novel of this diabolically perverse, provocative and cheeky psychopath, the author takes the reader on a macabre adventure laced with very biting black humour. With a style as electric as it is inventive, Raphaël Quenard dissects the sick mind of a modern monster and brings to life the entire gallery of characters surrounding him.