Manon Legendre is a stripper and escort girl in search of respectability. But this was before her life has been hacked into, her son kidnapped and the father of her child killed.
April 2017: A few weeks before the presidential elections, the police headquarters are being transferred in their new offices in the Batignolles neighbourhood. Hervé Compostel, the head of the criminal squad, has his plate full: a member of his team is regularly missing, details of their investigations seem to directly reach the press, and the daughter of a candidate has succumbed to an OD. Compostel will have to shed light on the connection between all of these cases, while trying to find explanations on his son's suicide.
- Phone surveillance, power games, conflicts of interests are intertwined in this sprawling and realistic noir novel.
Hervé Jourdain used to work for the police. He has written three other thrillers including Sang de la trahison awarded the 2014 Quai des Orfèvres Prize.