L'Atlantide
L'Atlantide
Author: Pierre Benoît
Desc: In 1903 Lieutenant Olivier Ferrières of the French army welcomes Captain de Saint-Avit as the new commandant of his post in Algeria. Shunned by his fellow officers the captain has been accused of the brutal murder of his friend Lieutenant Morhange when the two were lost alone in the desert. To Ferrières’s horror Saint-Avit soon confesses to the crime unveiling a shocking tale of lost worlds lust murder and the enslavement of desire in a forgotten desert kingdom—Atlantis! Antinea the queen of Atlantis seeks to destroy and imprison the men in her net through her beauty and cruelty enshrining their electroplated bodies in a fantastic hall assigning each doomed lover a number and a plaque in his memory. Caught in this web Saint-Avit and Morhange attempt to escape until love passion and jealousy threaten their friendship and their very lives. For only one man has ever captured the heart of Antinea and no one escapes the queen of Atlantis.