It's high summer in Nice and life has never felt so full of promise for Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle. But as his team is called to a suspicious fatality at nearby Saint-Laurent railway station, unforeseen problems arise and the picture changes completely. As Darac's newfound troubles intensify, the Saint-Laurent case becomes international news and, drawing on every resource at his disposal, he uncovers the knot of chicanery, corruption and murder at its heart. He will need all his ingenuity to apprehend the killer. To survive the life and death struggle that follows will take something more...