Sophie, Jean-Jacques and Christophe form a brilliant, young and fun, passionate love triangle in ENS, the elite college in Paris. Inspired by the liberated and complex affairs of Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus a century before, they joyously explore the City of Light. What can possibly stop these shining stars from changing the world's orbit? Ten years later, hurt and angry, Sophie returns with unlimited resources on a divinely inspired mission, to bring down the misogynous elite and take revenge on her lover. He's in the UK now and her Machiavellian plan unfolds. It's a remorseless and bloody chess game in which the pieces are people of inherited wealth and privilege. Played out in Winchester, Bath, Southampton, Windsor, Oxford and London, JJ's international security team must follow her mysterious trails, solve her complex clues and answer her impossible maths puzzles, always against those infernal countdowns. As the inexorable denouement approaches, two mighty forces collide in an emotional maelstrom and privileged society trembles on the edge of disaster.
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