An extravagant, big time gangland criminal is ambushed and assassinated; the only witness a ten-year-old-boy.
When Chief Inspector Pel accepts a drinks invitation at the house of a big shot, Deputy Claude Barclay, he doesn’t realise how compromised he will become by his acceptance.
A double shooting of two ageing crooks leads Chief Inspector Pel on the trail all the way to Mexico. Pel and his detectives know how, when and by whom they were murdered; but they must discover why.
In his beloved Burgundy, Chief Inspector Pel finds himself incensed by interference from Paris, but it isn’t the descent of rival policemen that makes Pel’s blood boil – crimes are being committed by violent gangs from Paris and Marseilles.
Pel's life as a contented newlywed is put on hold as he finds himself investigating the deaths of a series of young women, who have been strangled and left with macabre messages next... Læs mere