The first Inspector Lucas Rocco police thriller. France in the 1960s, and a lot of change is underway. Inspector Lucas Rocco is assigned as part of a nationwide policing initiative out of his base in Clichy, Paris, to a territory in Picardie, northern France. It looks serene and lazy, where nothing much can happen. But that's far from the truth. With the discovery of a dead woman in a military cemetery, he finds the trail leads to a high-profile industrialist and war hero with connections going back all the way to the SOE and the Resistance movement in WW2. Faced with official police and Interior Ministry interference, Rocco digs deeper and finds that there are people who will even kill a nosey policeman to keep their murky pasts intact...