The Adversary (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Emmanuel Carrère
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Prévessin, France
- Principal Characters: Jean-Claude Romand, Florence Romand, Luc Ladmiral, Corrine Hourtin
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Suicide, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, 1980’s, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Truthfulness and falsehood, 1990’s, Fraud, Mass murderers or serial killers
- Locales: France
On the morning of January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand, a respected physician and researcher at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, bludgeoned his wife to death and shot his two small children. Then he drove to his elderly parents’ home, had lunch with them, and soon afterwards shot them, too. He returned home the following night, set fire to the house, and tried to take his own life by swallowing twenty Nembutal tablets. Unfortunately for Romand, he was more proficient at murder than suicide. He survived because firefighters arrived and pulled him from the...
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