Maxime Chattam is a recognized master of the French thriller, the author of more than thirty bestsellers. Award for the best book of 2009 in France! Autumn 2005. Marion is forced to flee Paris. She is in mortal danger. Agents of the French secret services are hiding a woman on a rocky island, in the ancient abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. There, in the depths of the ancient library, Marion finds a time-worn book - a message without an addressee... And then a mysterious ghost enters her room... March 1928. Detective Matson investigates terrible and inexplicable crimes: children disappear from their homes in the middle of the night in Cairo. Their tortured bodies are found at nearby ancient burials. Terrible rumors are spreading in the city: the demon has returned to our world. However, the detective has a different opinion on this matter... Everything is much worse... Read the new, amazing novel “Blood of Time”!