The 216‑page book from Fayard recounts roughly three weeks at La Santé and was released one month after Sarkozy’s return to freedom under judicial control following his September conviction in the Libya case. At the Lamartine bookstore in Paris, large queues formed under a heavy police presence, and two Femen activists briefly disrupted the event before being detained. Excerpts describe prayers on his first night and austere prison conditions, and recount a call with Marine Le Pen in which he refuses to join any future ‘front républicain’ against the RN; in parallel comments he places the RN within the republican camp. Relatives of victims of the 1989 DC‑10 bombing said they were “affligées” by passages on their courtroom testimony, criticizing what they view as a victim posture. Strong pre‑sales propelled the title to the top of Amazon’s rankings in advance, and Sarkozy now awaits an appeal scheduled from March 16 to June 3 as the court also granted supervised release to co‑defendant Alexandre Djouhri.
