Joseph Incardona, clean love and dirty money

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

Joseph Incardona received the Grand Prize in Police Literature in 2015 and the black novel prize at the Beaune festival in 2011. He presents to us today what he swears to be a love story. The subtraction of possibilities was published by Finitude editions.

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It's an addictive book like sex and money. An intrigue as effective as a movie thriller and as bitter as the violence of financial capitalism. A social fresco on an era, the hinge of the 80s and 90s, the period when the world of today was invented, that of globalization and commodification. The story of an infernal machine that grinds the little ones, especially those who pretend to be big ones. A novel in which absolute darkness rubs shoulders with Machiavellian cynicism, but also the passion for raw feelings. We meet fatal women and Swiss bankers, Russian oligarchs and Corsican bandits, Albanian prostitutes and luggage carriers in the car or in the delta wing. The "Grand Architect" who holds the pen is Swiss, of Italian origin like some of his characters. Joseph Incardona is the guest of VMDN.

Cover of Joseph Incardona's book, "The Subtraction of Possibilities". Finitude Editions. © Editions Finitude

He has round glasses, fluffy brown hair, a youthful air, a smile maybe a little sly and his face has been plastered for twenty years now in the streets of Paris, in particular. The artist John Hamon proposes this time to "hack" the Louvre, an experience to which our reporter Fanny Bleichner lent himself .

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