The epidemic is plaguing Europe… Its inhabitants are confined to their homes, living in telematics or virtual reality, or trying to find salvation in the inventions of medical practitioners. Only the highest echelons of the administration can obtain a vaccine license, as the quantities produced by International Pharmaceuticals are minimal.
Victor K., a senior cadet in Brussels, is instructed to search discreetly for the son of a European Union Commissioner who has disappeared.
Victor’s brief investigation leads him on the trail of his old friend, who is in Egypt, where it is rumored that medical practitioners have discovered a cure for the disease and where a strange ideological movement is spreading, calling its followers to return to the past.
