![]() In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. What they discover is a global conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society. ![]() Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a global chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? That document was the key to the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything. ![]() It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. ![]() Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. ![]()
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