When Commander Pauline Rougier, of the Antiterrorist Brigade, on the verge of burnout, following the death of her husband, discovers a link between the attack that has just killed 40 people in Paris between the two rounds of the presidential election and the assassination of a politician, rising star of the media world, she launches into an investigation that will hold many surprises …

Pauline Rougier, Commander of the Anti-Terrorism Brigade, slowly rebuilds herself after her burn-out, under the benevolent gaze of New York Times reporter Jack Campbell. When she arrives at the scene of an accident and finds the unthinkable, she does not know that she has just been propelled in the center of a relentless mechanics that could destroy Paris …

Le commandant Pauline Rougier se voit confier une double enquête. L’enlèvement musclé d’un patient d’un hôpital psychiatrique et l’assassinat d’un magistrat, exécuté en plein jour sur les marches du Palais de Justice. Mais quand le tueur s’avère être un homme mort depuis près de vingt ans, Pauline comprend que les racines du mal sont à exhumer du passé. Ce nouvel opus pose au lecteur la question essentielle : Peut-on s’émanciper de son passé et espérer la rédemption ?