Marriage, a figure that evokes commitment, fidelity, will, love ... but above all, for practical purposes, a social institution that establishes civic nuclei of coexistence and belonging.
The idea of this novel is to combine all these aspects until obtaining a sinister derivative that one by one undermines all those positive aspects personally and socially.
At a time when other types of unions seem to advance to the detriment of sacramental commitments, The Pact is presented to us as a gruesome plot that is in crescendo and in which the marriage of Alice and Jack enter coaxed by the usual tinsel with which evil is adorned.
Do you remember the novel La Tapadera, by John Grisham? In any case, you will surely remember the homonymous movie starring Tom Cruise ...
In this new novel we enjoy (with the masochistic taste of the most intense crime novels) a turn of the screw of greater intensity than the famous Grisham novel.
The beginnings of Alice and Jack in the Institution to which they subscribe as a new marriage lead us between an elitist group that favors lavish encounters in which admitted upper-class couples indulge in la dolce vita and even the prosperity of businesses which networking.
But you, as a seasoned reader who would have already weighed the strangeness of the matter, you are discovering a dark aspect that is overshadowing the ultimate goal of said Institution.
In principle, it is assumed that those belonging to the select group find facilities of all kinds, but the slightest breach on the part of Alice or Jack is noticed from the highest levels of the Institution.
Until they both discover that by signing a signature on the membership contract they have mortgaged their own life, their freedom. There is no loophole to hide. Any attempt to report abuse ends up leading to greater punishment.
The apocalyptic sentence of "until death do us part" then takes on a hint of complete certainty ...
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