The Call of the Void

Why do we feel fear when it comes to looking down into a pit? Not because of the height, but because of fear of ourselves. We fear that, once we hear the call of the void, we’ll want to answer it and take a step into the unknown.

In Paris, strange murders are happening that seem either ritualistic—or committed by a maniac. Ludivina Wanker, an employee of the Paris police investigations department, encounters this evil and a predatory alliance whose crimes are filled with mysticism and grow increasingly cruel. Twisted minds are capable of terrible acts, but what if you put them to work for an ideological system? Terrorists destroy lives and souls—but what if the soul is already disfigured? Predators lack compassion and are interested not in people, but in abstract ideas.

Ludivina faces them face to face and learns how to fight evil that is hard to grasp. The bestselling author Maxime Chattam, fascinated by the study of evil and horror, started writing this novel three times, because the first two versions were too similar to real events. However, there are stories that must be told, and this is one of them.