After having lived the first seven years of his life in Senegal, Marc Dugain returned to France with his parents. At 35, he wrote his first novel, The Officers’ Room (1998), awarded twenty times (Nimier prize, Booksellers prize, Deux-Magots prize…) and adapted for the cinema. Investigative journalist, filmmaker, documentary filmmaker, he is the author of an important literary work and has just founded the “Espionnages” collection at Gallimard editions, where he publishes Misleading Landscapes.
“An intelligence agent disappears after a catastrophic hostage recovery operation in Somalia. Two investigative journalists accidentally die while investigating the murder of a tourist couple in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains. At the crossroads two cases, the agent, who has gone underground, joins forces with a documentary producer used by the French services and a psychologist of Israeli origin to hold up colossal funds circulating between drug traffickers in Latin America and the Iranian Pasdaran. what is the money from this heist intended for ? The question, at the heart of the plot, is coupled with a reflection on the role of manipulation in this parallel universe that is the compartmentalized world of intelligence. From Paris to Somalia, from Africa to Iceland and, finally, to Greenland, the three protagonists triumph over many obstacles, not the least of which is betrayal, before confronting the reader with a denouement that makes the pride of the human factor.” (Presentation of Gallimard editions)