'There were some weeks that were painful nerve-racking. At the office or at home in the
middle of a meal he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat a tightness in his chest
and at those times feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.'During a chance meeting on
the train from Venice to Paris a stranger asks Justin Calmar to deliver a briefcase for him to
an address in Switzerland. Soon this ordinary family man will become hopelessly fatally
ensnared in a world of guilt lies and paranoia.Originally published in 1965 shortly after
Simenon moved into the new home he had built in Épalinges Switzerland this chilling novel is
a powerful exploration of the fragility of the human psyche.
