A Perfect Man

Twenty-five-year-old Mathieu is an aspiring writer who is struggling to get his first book published. To make ends meet, he works for his uncle's removals firm. While clearing out the apartment of an old man after his death, Mathieu finds a diary of the man’s experiences as a soldier during the Algerian war. He decides to publish the diary under his own name and the novel becomes a huge success landing Mathieu the lifestyle, and the woman, he has always wanted. But a second novel is a long-time coming and three years later a mysterious phone call while on holiday with his girlfriend on the Cote d'Azur reveals someone else knows Mathieu's dark secret.
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