“I don’t know what I did to you when you were a kid to make you write such horrors, but send this book. It will be published. » You should always listen to your mother! Maxime Drouot, who is not yet called Chattam (named after a small town in Louisiana)was 25 years old when he had just written “The Soul of Evil”, his first thriller which, in his eyes, held up.
The young actor, at the time a bookseller at Fnac, did well to follow his mother’s advice. His novel, the first opus of a trilogy which is being released in a collector’s version, caught the eye of Michel Lafon, the French publisher of his master, Stephen King.