A Daily Express Book Of The Year&39;a Must-read&39; Evening Standard&39;houellebecqs New Book Proves He Is One Of The Worlds Greatest Novelists&39; The Daily Telegraph&39;the Most Important Novelist To Have Been Publishing In All Of Europe Over The Past Three Decades&39; The Sunday Timesas France Is In The Midst Of A Closely Fought Presidential Campaign, The Government Falls Victim To A Series Of Mysterious And Unsettling Cyberattacks. Paul Raison Is Caught Up In The States Scrambled Response, Working As An Advisor To The Finance Minister And With Family Connections To The Dgsi, The French Counterterrorism Agency.but Pauls Private Life Is As Strained As The Nation Is Troubled. His Marriage Has Collapsed, Hes Drifted From His Siblings, And Their Father Has Been Hospitalised Following A Stroke.