Using fiction to chart the rise (between the Sixties and the Eighties) of the charismatic and highly mediatised businessman Bernard Tapie (who died in October and was, among the many other twists and turns in his life, head of a professional cycling team which won the Tour de France, president of Marseille’s Olympique football club at the height of its glory – winning the Champions League in 1993 –, a politician and a minister, the buyer of Adidas, a man caught up in various financial scandals, including a corruption case within the very same world of.