In Frank Thillier’s thriller Vertigo, the writer manages to create a chilling and at the same time suffocating atmosphere of a slammed trap. The hero of the novel, mountaineer Jonathan Tuvier, who conquered the main peaks of the planet, one night suddenly discovers that he is chained to a rock in a strange cave, the exit from which is blocked up. Around it is cold, ice, darkness, next to his dog and two strangers: one, like Tuvier, is chained to a rock, the other can move, but he is wearing an iron mask with a combination lock, which will explode if he crosses the red line in search of salvation. The involuntary prisoners are lost in conjectures: how and why did they end up here, who is manipulating them? But the main question is: to what degree of despair and brutality a person can reach in order to survive? ..
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VERTIGE
Published originally under the title “VERTIGE”
Copyright © 2011, Fleuve Noir, Département d’Univers Poche
© O. Egorova, translation, 2015
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