Prolific journalist Jean-Benoît Nadeau launches into literature with a well-written first novel set in 1987 and which follows the tribulations of a group of speleologists from Quebec who came to southern Mexico to explore the chasms of the Sierra Negra. In the heart of this lost region of the country, but not uninteresting, we meet Michel Bélanger, the engineer of the team, who becomes friends with several local inhabitants, notably a blind, reclusive and poorly -loved by a Mexican village. But the arrival of Quebec tourists will not be without consequences on the lives of families in the region. The book pages are shaken by brutal feuds between rival clans waiting for the right opportunity to settle their scores once and for all. With many details, the 59-year-old author has created a fast-paced, breathless fiction that combines adventure stories and fantasy-flavored frescoes.
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