Dead Horsemeat is an inside account of horse-racing and drug-trafficking, political intrigue and criminal intent. public corruption and human decency. As the May '68 generation comes of age, ideals turn into business deals, deals which network their way across the new network of a Europe without frontiers.

A group of school friends who campaigned together at Rennes in the heyday of 1968: Agathe Renourd and her protégé Nicolas Berger are in charge of the communications network of a major insurance consortium; Christian Deluc has become a council member at the Elysée Palace; Amelie raises thoroughbreds. Now, in 1989, the paths of these former students are due to cross in an entirely unexpected fashion as they start playing with fire, carried along by the euphoria born of power. Events begin to take off: race horses die under mysterious circumstances; unimaginable quantities of cocaine appear at Parisian parties and dashing Nicolas Berger meets a violent end when a bomb explodes in his car.

From high aspirations to low morals; a cast of flamboyant characters are championed by gay police chief Daquin and ruthless PR manager Agathe Renouard and involve the low-life inhabiting the Elysee Palace and the high life of a transvestite brothel in Munich. You wouldn't want to know them, but following them through the vibrant and violent plot of Dead Horsemeat easily matches the thrill of the chase to the finishing line in the last race of the season.