In the StoryCode Blue
During cardiac arrest, Paul met his grown son. He has no children. After returning to life, Paul Delmas remembers more than danger. He carries an encounter, a presence, a bond between father and son whose intensity defies explanation. Everything waiting for him outside now seems to have been preceded by a possible life.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Paul Delmas tapped the casing twice with his fingertip, waited for the roller’s low rumble, then pulled the white strip before the machine had finished cutting it. The patient’s name appeared at an angle: SALOMÉ AÏT-BENALI, AGE 24, CARDIOLOGY 3B. Beside the barcode, the ink had bled across the last digit of her birth date.Read the excerpt ↗