Antoine Bello

Antoine Bello is a French author, born in Boston in 1970. He lives in New York.

His first novel, The Missing Piece (1998), is an instant success and is translated into a dozen languages. The story plays out in the fictitious world of speed puzzle. The novel consists of fifty pieces - newspaper articles, reports, interviews - that have no apparent coherence.

A three-part literary work follows, The Falsifiers (2007), The Pathfinders (2009), and The Showrunners (2015). It tells the story of a young Icelander, Sliv Dartunghuver, who climbs the ranks of a secret international organisation which falsifies reality and rewrites history. The Pathfinders received the coveted Prix France Culture - Telerama.

In 2010, The Disappearance of Emilie Brunet plays with the codes of crime fiction while paying tribute to Agatha Christie and Edgar Allan Poe.

In 2014, American Novel explores the fascinating world of life settlement (the trading of life insurance policies) using the tools of fiction and journalism.

In a previous life, Bello founded, developed and sold Ubiqus, a company that offers services to meeting planners.

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