LA TENTATION BARBARE

After an uneasy night, Max wakes with a start, and is horrified to discover that she is there again, watching him from his bedside. Fleeing a rather mediocre career as a ghostwriter and a failed marriage, Max has come to try his luck in New York. He soon rediscovers love in the arms of a beautiful redhead, Maureen; and also agrees, in the utmost secrecy, to write the latest novel by Emilie Roubaix, the fashionable author of the moment. But the nightmares he thought he had left safely on the other side of the Atlantic are assailing him once again. Not only that, his worst fears have been realised: the young girl is back. Who is this silent child who haunts his nights? Is her return something to do with the new novel he's writing? To find out, Max will have to dig through his memories and face up to his past. Devilishly put together, La Tentation barbare is an engrossing read tinged with both delight and anxiety. Pierre JB Benichou takes us from one revelation to another as the scene shifts between Paris, Marseille and New York, in the footsteps of a man in search of his memory. Pierre JB Benichou was born in 1952. In addition to being a ghostwriter, just like his hero, he has also worked in the film industry as a distributor, director and producer, as well as a festival organiser. After spending four years in New York, he now lives in Tel Aviv, where he devotes himself entirely to writing. La Tentation barbare is his first novel under his own name.