The croupier is a high-flying sadist, an assassin whose talents will be required by a crime organization operating across the continent. A series of seven murders is announced. Each victim has been carefully chosen to incarnate one of the major arcana of the Marseilles Tarot deck. These “human levies” take place in the four corners of the United States: a trend consultant is sacrificed during a voodoo ceremony in New York, a plastic surgeon is assassinated in Los Angeles, a Nippo-Irish chef is devoured by his crayfish in San Francisco, a pedophile guru converted to doll marketing in northern California, a serial pusher in New York…
In this incredible manhunt, just one man escapes the croupier’s subtle but diabolical scheme: Mathias Broguère. He is the ‘Mat’, or the Fool, the only unnumbered card in the deck, the wanderer – his ignorance his only protection. Nothing can prepare him for the adventures he will face. Somewhat naively, he heads off to Chili alone, looking to find himself. It’s the first step in a long initiation process, punctuated with accidents, strange encounters and a variety of hallucinogenic drugs that will bring him to Easter Island via Haiti, at the heart of a brotherhood of shamans whose champion he will become.
Whether left to his own devices or seconded by mysterious companions, Mathias opposes the croupier in a power play whose protagonists don’t always understand the forces causing them to act.
But the game has just begun.

A suspense-filled novel of adventure, The Song of the Arcana will initiate readers into the major questions of our times.