Les Cailloux sacrés is a Road Book as written by Raymond Chandler. Included are a scappy and very liberated retired couple, a torrid mystical blonde with a taste for tequila, a visionary grease monkey, a broken-down waitress (seductive all the same), and a posse, that is, a group of chopper riding anti-prion commandos. In RV or Ferrari or on hog mounted, these characters are headed to the southern Alps, to the café-restaurant Palot d'Argent, MC-ed and wholly owned by Balthasar Dulac, king of veal stew. Not everyone shares the same feeling for poor Balthasar and the big reunion is a burlesque and bloodied explosion of delirium at the denouement. Between times, we learn a lot about environmentalist Hell's Angels, the theory of the Silent Mutation of the Prion, the morals of eagles, the correspondence, circa 1850, of Albert the mine guard and last, but not least, the Council of Nicea and the recipe for the veal stew sauce. With this odd cocktail, Nicolas Richard takes us on an amusing little trip with far-out characters.


Nicolas Richard has translated the poetry of Richard Brautigan and the thrillers of Harry Crews, James Crumley Joe R. Lansdale, as well as works by Stephan Dixon. He is a rock band manager.