Habemus Piratam - Pierre Raufast
This lively novel has many virtues: it will make you laugh, surprise you and teach you plenty about the techniques used by computer hackers.
By reading this book, you will learn about the techniques used by hackers.
The first surprise is the setting: the story begins in the confessional of a country priest, in a peaceful little village where life revolves around gossip from elderly ladies playing Scrabble.
Then a very unusual character appears: a high-level 21st-century criminal. Here, there is no need for firearms or dynamite to rob a safe or a museum. This third-millennium criminal uses the weapons of his time: digital tools.
He is full of ingenuity, but also a master at understanding our very human weaknesses: love, anger and fear.
The story plunges our good priest into an adventure filled with highly unexpected pursuits, while finally solving the famous mystery of the knickers a mystery that has occupied the minds of the villagers for many years.
The final twist will leave you speechless, beneath the light of the stained-glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle.