About The Truth about Moscow, Sex and Fear:
This book isn’t pornography, it’s not a crime story, it’s not a psychological drama – it’s the seamy side of Moscow laid bare, it’s the unforgivable depth of the mistakes that our parents make, it’s today’s fall from grace and rebirth.
In one book, Antoine Dupont, a Frenchman who lived in Moscow for ten years (2011-2021), has managed to capture the most vital elements in today’s life and culture, its fears, phobias, risks, searches for love and for oneself.
“THE TRUTH about MOSCOW. SEX and FEAR” is the philosophy of sex and life in the shades of the present day, amplified in detail by the sins of today’s “gilded youth” and the Moscow beau monde.
The central characters are from different groups in society. They are unlike one another. But they are all in search of the meaning of life and love. They are all looking for freedom. From self-deceit, from soul-crushing work, from humiliation, from fear for themselves and those they love, from conventions and from themselves.
Each of the characters in this story traveled their own path to this ill-fated day, a path full of sin and their own truth. A select few are fated to survive this chaos, blood and fear, finding the strength within themselves to live and love again.
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Author Bio:
His heart broken by the sudden death of his mother and his father’s rejection, Antoine Dupont moved to Moscow in 2011 to start from scratch. Behind him, he left a comfortable, cocooned existence as a well-off, highly educated native of Paris.
Going to Moscow, of all places, was a matter of pure chance – a friend had already been planning to go and suggested he come along. Once in Russia’s capital city, however, he quickly found himself immersed deep within a world of stark contrasts. For some, a city of excess, decadent luxury, a world pulsing with drugs and sex, but also a city where those deprived of wealth and opportunity will take a desperate chance to make it into the elite.
Fascinated by the city and its inhabitants, Dupont became fluent in the language and by 2012-2013 he was already working as a journalist, writing for several international publications under a variety of pseudonyms.
Investigating stories introduced him to the hypocrisies of Moscow’s journalistic community and the secrets of Russia ultra-rich “gilded youth” – the spoiled children of influential bureaucrats and tycoons. As a crime scene reporter, he studied and wrote about the rougher edges of the Russian capital – its rogue cops, the petty thieves, the “vori” gangs, formed in the prison archipelago, that permeate the country’s economy and culture, and the prostitutes and escorts that service all those with enough money to foot their bills.
A close friendship with one of the top psychoanalysts in the city, gave Antoine yet more material. The psychoanalyst died at the height of the pandemic in early 2020, but shortly before he passed away he told Antoine of a case that resonated with him, the story of Patient A.