The Provocateur is a satire on multi-national corporations. At the French headquarters of Rosserys and Mitchell, the world's number one business conglomerate all is not well: The marketing director has died suddenly, someone is sending anti-capitalist messages to every desk in the office and a crack has developed in the building's very foundations. The bizarre and increasingly macabre events are narrated by the mild mannered Associate Director of Human Relations events worsen...
Ren'-Victor Pilhes was born in 1934. Having given up a job at a leading advertising agency he wrote a number of novels which won him international acclaim and the Prix Medici and Femina.