About the book: 2011 / Darius, nicknamed CYCLOPS, is a favorite of the French public and the best comedian in the world. Full houses, applause, homeric laughter. Years of success and glory. All this disappeared in an instant. All that was left was a lifeless body in his personal dressing room. The great comedian was dead. Journalists Isidore and Lucretia are convinced that this death is not accidental - Cyclops was killed. They begin their own investigation, which leads them to where LAUGHTER IS BORN. A new bestseller by the cult French writer Bernard Verber, author of the world bestsellers “Empire of Angels”, “Ants”, “The Mirror of Cassandra”».