"Breathless pace. Touches effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, and the cynicism of the business world."Les EchosWho hasn't wanted to become "someone else"? Over a drink in Paris, two men give each other three years to see which one can more radically alter his life. Blin becomes a private detective. He takes on a new identity, even a surgically altered face. Gredzinski, a self-effacing corporate executive, discovers liquor that evening and rapidly yields to the sensuality and self-confidence induced by alcoholism. Things get complicated when Blin is hired by an ex-lover to find himself and when Gredzinski secretly follows his girlfriend to her home. A helter-skelter tale of humor and suspense.Winner of the literary prize RTL-Lire.

Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being a museum night watchman, a train guard and a parasite on the Paris gallery opening and cocktail circuit, he is now a successful author and screenwriter.Adriana Hunter's work includes Catherine Millet's explicit autobiography,'The sexual life of Catherine M' and Beigbeder's attack novel on advertising,'£9.99'.She also translated'Death in the Dordogne' by Louis Sanders recently favourably reviewed by the NYT.