This explosive novel is set in a castle in Germany toward the end of World War II. There, French fascists have taken refuge--among them, Céline and his wife Lili (the the cat Bébert), the actor Robert Le Vigan, Pierre Laval and Henri Pétain, and a weird assembly of mystics, prostitutes, and swindlers, all together in the labyrinthine structure's secret passages and subterranean chambers. -- Back cover.