Who is this “extra dead person” found in the rubble of the World Trade Center?

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3,711. That's the number of deaths recorded during the attack of September 11, 2001. 3,711, plus one. Following in the footsteps of Truman Capote, Philippe Jaenada, and Florence Aubenas, Victor Guilbert, author of Hugo Boloren's investigations—"Douve," "Terra Nullius," and "Brouillards" (J'ai Lu)—takes on the story of a unique legal case: one body too many, found in the rubble of the World Trade Center. The victim did not perish in the attacks, but was hidden beneath the rubble on the day of the disaster.

This book tells the story of how four young adults—two French women, Eléonore and Céline, and their Congolese and Sicilian boyfriends, Hervé and Angelo (the dead man), came to perfect their English and their CVs in a shady, cocaine-fueled New York—got to where they were. But it also tells the story of the fiasco of the American investigation, a veritable sleight of hand filled with disastrous approximations. And all this in the style of Victor Guilbert: comical even in the maca...

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