When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school, Lamar, a New York detective of twelve years, is called to the scene. A seventeen year old student has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself. Having collected all the evidence, Lamar reconstructs the blood-soaked morning of the killer. Ten days later, a second massacre occurs at a school in Queens. Once more, a student kills multiple victims before turning the gun on himself. A third massacre follows. Three sets of killings in three weeks, all strangely similar with the perpetrators committing suicide. It can't just be a coincidence? AUTHOR: Maxime Chattam was born in 1976 in Val-d'Oise. He studied criminology and is the author of many best-selling thrillers. His first thriller, The Fifth Reign, published under the pseudonym Maxime Williams, won the Fantasy Novel award at the Gerardmer literary festival. He has also won the prestigious Sand d'Encre award for The Soul of Evil.
