He calls it The Meursault Investigation, Mersault being the name of the first person in The Stranger. To Algerians the French were the strangers. The first person in Daud’s book is also a stranger, an outsider, who shares many traits with Meursault. He is consumed by his brother’s death. He and his mother are mirror images of Meursasult and his mother. They are almost the same, although they are Algerians. The first person is, like Mersault, without belief. God has not touched him. Death has touched him and left a deep impression. In the end, he offers a concise account of the mindset of a suicide bomber. Death is embraced. It is not a religious purpose, but a state of mind.