Total Chaos is the first novel of French author Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles Trilogy.

"[2] Fabio Montale, a suburban-Marseille cop, sees his two closest childhood friends die one-by-one in violent circumstances.

Montale tries to understand what happened and gradually discovers a tangle of interests and power struggles within the Marseilles underworld and police.

A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in the name of friendship, takes the fight against the mafia into his own hands" [2] Lole Lole is the gypsy love interest of the now deceased Manu and Ugo.

The colour made her skin look browner than usual and emphasized the blackness of her hair, which she was wearing short now.