After reading this book in its entirety, and as a native French speaker, I want to point out that I still don’t know what it was about, else than musings about such subjects as the Catholic Church and its involvement in politics, the international traffic in body parts, the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope Jean-Paul II’s life, the right to life, secretive political deal-makings carried out in the shadows, etc. According to the back (written by the author), it is “a basic book, clear, simple…” (Huh?) Well, if that is the way Mr. Sollers defines is, I guess it must be, and the fault is mine. Despite a few brilliant moments, -particularly when T.E. Lawrence is quoted about guerilla war strategy, I wasn’t able to make sense of much of the book. Must be my lack in formal education, I guess. In French.