A successful lawyer's affair with a younger woman soon becomes something much darker: an all-consuming obsession that drives him to recklessly upend his own life--and to jealously control hers. Lucien Gobillot has a successful career, a powerful wife, and a beautiful young mistress. Rather than feeling fulfilled, however, he finds himself overwhelmed with jealousy and anxiety, at all times paranoid and full of self-doubt. When his relationship with his mistress reaches a point of crisis, Gobillot acts rashly and indulges in his desires past the point of no return. As his obsession deepens, he struggles to make sense of his own actions--or to see any way out. In Case of Emergency is an engrossing, disturbing portrait of a man overcome with--and repelled by--his own desires, meticulously captured by Georges Simenon's distinctive eye for human psychology and the dark undersides of our most intimate relationships.