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Break Point #1
Break Point
La Matriochka : c'est ainsi que l'on nomme la banque dont la salle des coffres est construite sur le principe des célèbres poupées russe. Le coffre-fort est enfermé dans une salle forte, elle-même imbriquée dans une autre salle forte. C'est une merveille de technologie et d'ingéniosité parfaitement inviolable. La Gorgone, criminel de haut vol, à l'identité cachée, engage de gré ou de force quatre hommes dans ce casse suicidaire. Pourquoi ne pas finir en beauté, après tout ! Mais tout ne se déroule pas comme prévu. William, un des braqueurs, agonise dans la salle des coffres. Il va raconter à Polkoff, flic brutal et opiniâtre, la formidable manipulation dont lui et ses compagnons ont été les victimes.
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First published January 14, 2004
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About the author
Philippe Saimbert
23 books16 followersPhilippe Saimbert is a novelist and scriptwriter.
Passionate about writing, comics, rock music and movies, the author has had more than 12 comic books and several novels published since 1999.
Saimbert likes mixing literary genres, fleshing out his characters and coming up with… surprising ends.
Passionate about writing, comics, rock music and movies, the author has had more than 12 comic books and several novels published since 1999.
Saimbert likes mixing literary genres, fleshing out his characters and coming up with… surprising ends.
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January 6, 2022
Before retiring, Medusa, one of the most wanted crooks and criminals, wants to obtain Prince El Bachari's diamond collection, kept inside Matrioska, the best-protected banking establishment in the world. To help him, he hires a bunch of criminals.
Between Alex, “the best blade in Calabrese”, and Karl, one of the best in the field of underwater welding, is also William, 110 kilos, insecure and sheltered through his many layers of grease, which protect him from everything, except the psychological suffering he faces. When Polkoff, a policeman with dubious methods, interrogates him, William reveals the betrayal that everyone has been targeted.
Once inside an ambulance, the hacker reveals the reason why friendship and love led him to serve 7 years in prison and how he later ended up there, at an open-door Matrioska, despite the programmers' efforts to build a “Russian doll made up of elements that fit together”, capable of preventing any violation. “A maiden who fiercely defends her virtue” and whose opening of the safe could only “be activated at the police station through a radio link encoded in 128 bits”. It goes without saying that Medusa got her way and that the security system was eventually hacked.
Volume 1 is just the introduction to the robbery, the bringing together of "all the drama pieces". The story, although entertaining, doesn't particularly stand out. The design is beautiful, but the palette is mainly dominated by muddy tones.
Between Alex, “the best blade in Calabrese”, and Karl, one of the best in the field of underwater welding, is also William, 110 kilos, insecure and sheltered through his many layers of grease, which protect him from everything, except the psychological suffering he faces. When Polkoff, a policeman with dubious methods, interrogates him, William reveals the betrayal that everyone has been targeted.
Once inside an ambulance, the hacker reveals the reason why friendship and love led him to serve 7 years in prison and how he later ended up there, at an open-door Matrioska, despite the programmers' efforts to build a “Russian doll made up of elements that fit together”, capable of preventing any violation. “A maiden who fiercely defends her virtue” and whose opening of the safe could only “be activated at the police station through a radio link encoded in 128 bits”. It goes without saying that Medusa got her way and that the security system was eventually hacked.
Volume 1 is just the introduction to the robbery, the bringing together of "all the drama pieces". The story, although entertaining, doesn't particularly stand out. The design is beautiful, but the palette is mainly dominated by muddy tones.
September 3, 2025
Septembre 2025. 3,5/5 C’est un scénario assez classique mais intéressant. J’ai assez hâte de voir comment ça va évoluer.
Le travail artistique me plaît bien. J’aurais peut-être fait différemment pour la mise en couleur mais je présume qu’on voulait que ça soit gris taule pour l’ambiance…
Le travail artistique me plaît bien. J’aurais peut-être fait différemment pour la mise en couleur mais je présume qu’on voulait que ça soit gris taule pour l’ambiance…
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