Jean-Luc Blanchet

On 29 July 1890 Vincent Van Gogh took his last breath. Despite the painter's silence about the circumstances, his death was put down to suicide throughout the 20th century. In 2011 following their investigation into Van Gogh's last hours American researchers Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh delivered a new version of the facts.

Mysterious packages of white powder washing up on an Atlantic beach will stir various and varied lusts: that of the sculptor Vladimir Omitov at his Shark Sorrows bar for sailors; that of Aldo and his accomplice Jose, improbable mobsters; and of course the customs officials. There begins a ballet of intrigue as crazy and explosive as the characters themselves.