Fabrizio Gatti, is an envoyé spécial for the weekly review, L'Espresso. He has participated in a number of investigations as an undercover reporter. In Bilal (prix Terzani 2008), he slips into the skin of a clandestine Kurdish migrant. In a moving tale of violence and humiliation, he describes this experience. Leaving Dakar for Europe, he crosses the Sahara on a lorry, meets unscrupulous people-smugglers and members of Al’Quaida and, once he arrives in the holding centre at Lampedusa, lives the daily life of asylum-seekers. Three times, he has been detained in holding centres as a pseudoimmigrant. His reports are known throughout the world.

A journalist, writer and screen-writer, Sergio González Rodríguez was born in Mexico in 1950 where he still lives today. After the publication of several essays and novels, he has just written a nonfiction novel, a study of one of the most astounding criminal mysteries of all time – that of the unsolved murder of hundreds of women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. Des os dans le désert shows us another side of the world, the underside of a corrupt Mexico where the most destitute fight against conspiracy.

Philippe Vasset, an investigative journalist, has decided put fiction to the test of reality. In Journal intime d’un marchand de canons he reveals a global and largely secret economy – that of the arms trade. Following his exploration of the limits of literature and of the ‘white areas’ of our society, he tells an exalting tale of non-fiction worthy of a spy novel.