The author, hiding behind the pseudonym D.O.A. (Dead on arrival), in France he is recognized as one of the most interesting contemporary authors working in the detective genre, the heir of Jean-Christophe Grange and Jean-Patrick Manchette. His novel “The Time of Scorpions” was received with great interest in Russia. The reader is invited to the new novel D.O.A. “Death by a thousand wounds.” A small French town near Cahors. Life here turns out to be not so sleepy at all: the townsfolk are unable to get along with the “strangers”; they hunt for their black neighbor, hoping to drive him out of “their” land. The police are pursuing drug dealers and hired killers. The silence of the bucolic landscapes is broken by the noise of a powerful motorcycle engine. Soon shots are heard over the vineyards. A mysterious motorcyclist - “part of that force that always wants evil, but always does good” - suddenly bursts into a provincial swamp, saving the offended, disrupting the plans of the aggressors, mixing up the cards of the police.