Overview
Who escapes being spied on or watched these days? Surely not people who keep a low-profile... A baroque modern novel about listening in. The avenue des Gobelins, Paris. A man outside an old camera shop. Hovering, hesitating to go in. He is spotted by a police officer in a surveillance van, the officer in charge of an unofficial tapping operation deluged by the endless texts, messages, photos and posts that passers-by in his sector send each other every minute, every second of the day. A constant tide that sends his mind into chaos. But who is the man he's seen? Why is he so disturbing? He isn't sending any messages.Is it normal not to use a mobile phone nowadays? The man's silence is suspect. The officer can't stop thinking about him, and now he's emerging from shop with a silver-coloured camera. Who is he? Why's he here? Everything bustles around him in that other world of our invisible, digital lives. The officer sees him as a threat... a local schoolboy recognises him as the Morse, a rock star who disappeared in Norway in the 1980s. This book asks whether our hyper-connected lives - which can be listened to and spied on - reveal who we really are or the person we want others to see? What if tapping only revealed our lies?
