Champions of Silicon Valley and some libertarian biotechnology bigwigs are convinced: the best way to protect yourself against state control would be to own one. This is what the French academician Jean-Christophe Rufin (The Abyssinian, Red Brazil) in his new novel, Gold and jungle, a fast-paced, cynical and effective political thriller. For a discreet multi-billionaire sponsor in California, a private intelligence agency will try to take control of the tiny petro-monarchy of Brunei, wedged between Malaysia and Indonesia, in Southeast Asia. Preparing their coup d’état from Nice, advised by an old history teacher coming out of retirement, a sort of Doctor Strangelove soaked in Malaparte and Trotsky, they will try to put into practice his “theory of shaking” with blows. disinformation, hacking computer science, sabotage and manipulation, triggering, as in nuclear physics, a chain reaction. Visionary?
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