Who is the author of the book “The Great Swindle”?

Pierre Lemaitre
The book “The Great Swindle” has been authored by Pierre Lemaitre, which has won the 2013 Prix Goncourt Prize, France’s most prestigious literary award. It’s an engrossing, densely plotted, richly detailed and exciting novel that begins in the last days of World War I and follows three main characters: Albert ( a humble bank clerk), Lieutenant d’Aulnay Pradelle (an ambitious and dishonest officer) and Edouard Pericourt ( an aspiring artist from a wealthy family). The three might never have met in peacetime, but the war brings them into the same world. It’s a tale of widespread corruption and exploitation in which everyone is concerned, in which the dead are sacred and the living people are aimless.