It was the year 2021 of Simulatio Domini...
(This novel, set in a hypothetical 2021, was written well before 2020, its French publication date, and therefore includes no reference to the pandemic. I kept reading expecting the pandemic to emerge and be a factor but don’t make that mistake. There is no pandemic.)
On Thursday, June 24, 2021, Air France Boeing 787 lands at McGuire Air Force Base in Tr…