Jean-Claude Romand pretended to be a doctor for eighteen years.
Fake WHO office, fake salary, fake conferences. All of it because he was too ashamed to admit he never finished medical school.
When the lie was about to collapse in 1993, he murdered his wife, his children and his parents rather than be found out.
Emmanuel Carrère wrote El adversario about him: the terrifying banality of a life built entirely on not being able to say “I failed an exam”.