Monte Carlo is France’s gambling capital. Here, adrenaline is always boiling in players’ blood—here, in a single evening, you can become rich, or be ruined to dust. Here, at the card table, death often sits right next to the players—it doesn’t forgive debts and renders its judgment quickly and brutally.
The apotheosis of gambling passions is “The Big Game,” when absolutely enormous money is staked and every emotion reaches an extreme, inhuman tension. This is exactly the game the expert-analyst Dongolo has been invited to.
He must expose the cheating schemes and catch the fraudsters in the act. But instead, he has to hunt for a murderer who ruthlessly eliminates competitors and inexorably, step by step, draws closer to Dongolo…