Jean-Cédric Michel

My novels aim to entertain—but always with an underlying idea, reflection, philosophy, or revolution. In a world that primarily addresses these issues through news reports and documentaries, they tackle social problems through adventure and fiction.

The Day Apple Bought Greece explores the extraordinary, excessive power wielded by Big Tech and the obsolescence, injustice, and inefficiency of tax systems. Can the world’s richest digital capitalist company, with hundreds of billions in cash on its balance sheet, force a country indebted to the tune of hundreds of billions to adopt its financial transaction tax software, the future solution for automating and ensuring tax collection?

World Climate Ministry deals with the obstacle that current beneficiaries of the capitalist economy are placing on the energy and climate transition—through their control over politics, democracy, and institutions, making them complicit in the disaster. Will it take activists or terrorists to finally achieve this transition, in the established interest of all? Will a courageous and unprecedented institutional initiative within the European Parliament break this harmful pact and achieve its goal?

The Robin Hood Formula raises the issue of inequality, the widening of which, driven by globalization, is reaching a scale that distorts democracy and jeopardizes the social contract. How is capitalism, which has brought prosperity, health, and security to so many, now going off the rails, and what can be done about it? Taxing the rich—a perennial debate? Impossible, given their control over politics.

Since an excessive share of profit goes to capital (shareholders and lenders), it must be redistributed more equitably—by increasing the share of those who create it: all of us. How? Through a formula that, for every company in the world, based on its median salary, limits the gap between the highest and lowest salaries, limits the return on capital, and eliminates bonuses and stock options. By comparing their current salary to their actual wages, everyone will know what they should be paid – and will demand it. In this way, revolution will come from below – because revolutions never come from above.

The Robin Hood Formula is making its way in America - where inequality is a mainstream conversation sparking fury and... frustration as no solution is ever sketched, apart from raising taxes which... will never happen considering oligarchy's hand on politics. Find this clever thriller which already has its audience on Amazon, NetGalley, Goodreads and Reedsy. An ever urgent and captivating read. Meanwhile, other (futile) wars give ever more material to my next novel in the making. Stay tuned.

The English version of 'Plus Pour Tous' was pre-launched in the fall, then I travelled to Patagonia for three months, and it is now out and available under the title 'The Robin Hood Formula' with a stunning unique fresh and young light green cover! No doubt that with all the social and societal issues around inequality and mounting oligarchy in the U.S. (and in the world), it will captivate its audience - being one more thriller without a murder 😎⚡️ On Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Don't wait!