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My Publications
Entre ombres et lumières
Testimony — Published in September 2025
An intimate and vibrant account that retraces the journey of an extraordinary life. From childhood to career choices, by way of personal struggles, François-Michel forges a unique path, oscillating between light and darkness. His solitude, far from being a burden, becomes a driving force, offering him the freedom to fully dedicate himself to his passions—from singing to performing, from the hotel industry to writing. A powerful testament to resilience and authenticity.
Éditions Le Lys Bleu, 2025.
Complots et secrets au château
Political satire novel — Published in August 2025
Complots et secrets au château follows the rise of Eudes Moinon, an ambitious young president caught in the intrigues of a power that crushes him. Behind his self-assurance lie narcissism and a thirst for glory. Scandals, rushed reforms, and rivalries transform his term into a masquerade. A prisoner of his own demons, he slides towards an inevitable downfall, in a world where broken promises and buried secrets ultimately dictate the rules of the game.
Upcoming publications
Essay — to be published spring/summer 2026
From 1956 to 2026, seventy years of France seen from the inside. Born in the France of Reconstruction, the author traces a personal and political chronicle spanning seven decades — from de Gaulle to Macron, from the Trente Glorieuses to decline, from the optimism of the 1960s to today's social divide. A political essay where individual memory illuminates the great collective shifts.
Découvrez l'avant-première de la sortie le 14 mai 2026.
Noir novel — to be published summer 2026 - Trilogy
A well-researched crime novel — Darkness of the Cities - Chronicle of a Narco-Republic — Spring 2026
Marseille, 2025. Rachid is killed in a shooting presented as yet another "settling of scores" in the northern districts. For the police, it's collateral damage. For his cousin Aïcha Benali, a journalist at Clairvoyant, it's a point of no return.
Following the drug dealing spots, lookouts, stash houses, garages, and ports, Aïcha discovers the extent of the Firm, a structured urban cartel linked to maritime terminals, shell companies, and an invisible mastermind nicknamed "the Architect." On the other side, Malik Sadi, a street cop, knows the nights of the housing projects, the "clean-up" operations, the Kalashnikovs, and the backroom deals, but he struggles with the blurring of lines between the legal and illegal economies.
Their paths converge around a major police operation, deaths on both sides, and a disturbing observation: France is already living under the threat of a narco-Republic, where drugs do not just kill — they weigh on urban planning, loyalties and, already, certain elections.
Noir novel — to be published summer 2026
Political noir novel — Narco-democracy - Chronicle of a country under tension in 2027 — Volume 2
After the Marseille housing projects, Aïcha Benali goes up the floors: courthouses, prefectures, ministerial offices, TV studios and Treasury notes.
An anonymous envelope slipped onto his desk revealed a memo from the Ministry of the Economy: the government knew that drug money was circulating in public contracts, security companies, and social service centers. And it chose to wait until 2027 so as not to "fuel extremism."
Around her, a magistrate who refuses to bury the cases, a policeman transferred "to the countryside" for having seen too much, an elected official who presents himself as a bulwark while protecting certain "local contacts".
A fictionalized documentary that questions what becomes of a country when drugs buy not only weapons, but also political time.