From the icy Gulags of Siberia to the stifling humidity of Florida, this breathtakingly suspenseful novel takes you behind the scenes of History, where monstrosity reigns supreme. January 24, 1989. Guilty of more than a hundred rapes, tortures and murders of young women, Ted Bundy is to be executed at dawn on the electric chair. During his last hours, while a pastor tries to obtain his confession, memories come back to him and questions assail him. Is he a monster, a psychopath or a person possessed, in search of revenge? What if this sadistic instinct and the abominations he committed had their roots in another era, beyond any rational explanation? Could the murders and tortures of which he was guilty with relish be simply linked to his karma?
Decades earlier, during Stalin’s mass purges, a Russian physicist is mistakenly condemned, humiliated, tortured and sent to the Gulag in the worst conditions, without knowing what happened to his family. On board the train that takes him into the darkness of injustice and oblivion, this expert in quantum physics, respected by the greatest scientists of his time, opens up to strange secrets thanks to his meeting with an old kabbalist about to breathe his last.
What links Bundy to the professor?
Red Eden by Pierre Rehov is an engaging historical fiction novel that will take you on a journey like never before. It’s more than a tale of a serial killer. It is a book that will force you to look for answers that you can’t find in any other Mystery, suspense, and thriller novel.
Born in Algeria, when it was still a French department, I was exiled to France with the rest of my family after its independence. After studying law, I devoted myself to journalism, mainly in the field of cinema, which was and remains one of my passions. During my conscript time, I was hired by a French publishing house to write the memoirs of actress Romy Schneider, and went on to write an essay on cinema, which led me to organise several festivals on this theme before becoming a film distributor and then a producer.
In 1983, I moved to Hollywood, where I participated in the production of an action film directed by Simon Nuchtern: "Savage Dawn". Back to France, I became a full-time ghost writer. Between 1986 and 1991, I collaborated in the writing of more than twenty novels and essays.
I returned to journalism in 1992 and in 18 years I made nearly 20 documentaries in conflict zones, mainly in the Middle East, while publishing articles in many newspapers, including Le Figaro and the Jerusalem Post. This exciting experience allowed me to get back to writing novels. "Beyond Red Lines", my first book published in English, reflects my knowledge of terrorist and secret service circles. I now divide my life between New York, Paris and Tel Aviv, which has become my main residence.