The Enemy's Cosmetique (French: Cosmétique de l'ennemi) is the tenth novel written by Belgian author Amélie Nothomb.

He hated the job, as the fish and rice concoction always nauseated him and he had to close his eyes while he mixed it.

At this point, Angust decides he has heard enough and tries to block out Texel's words by covering his ears with his hands.

He met her in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris and was immediately struck by her beauty and resemblance to a certain statue in the graveyard.

Not recognizing him as her attacker, the woman assumed Texel was a friend of her husband's and kindly invited him back to her home for tea.

Texel tells her that that was why he had come - firstly to learn her name, and secondly to allow her to finally avenge herself for the rape by killing him.

Angust becomes agitated and calls over some nearby police officers, despite Texel's assurances that it won't do any good.

The story ends with Jerome Angust, unable to cope, seizing Texel and bashing his head against the wall until he dies.

[2] For 2020 joint Germano-Franco-Spanish production in English under the title "A Perfect Enemy", see existing German-language article Kosmetik des Bösen.