by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Les Editions de Minuit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707345592
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«La clé USB» is the suspense novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (192 pages, in French).
A European Commission official, an expert in technological foresight and cybersecurity, is approached by lobbyists. A USB drive that does not belong to him contains documents suggesting a backdoor in a machine from a Chinese company in Dalian; tempted, he leaves Brussels and travels to China to verify it.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in industrial espionage, cybersecurity, and the ethical dilemmas of technology.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, the second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.
