Dangerous Encounter

Ernst Jünger is the author of the world-famous memoirs on World War I "In Steel Storms" and the visionary dystopias "Heliopolis", "The Glass Bees", and "Eumeswil". "Dangerous Encounter" is the last novel of the writer, quite different from his other works. In his characteristic unhurried narrative style, Jünger paints a portrait of Parisian society at the end of the 19th century, immersing the reader in a dark story full of intrigue and mysteries, where the main character becomes a pawn in the complex game of a secret society obsessed with gambling, vice, and permissiveness...