Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle arrives at a crime scene to
find a woman's mutilated corpse. Initially routine, the case deepens and
darkens into a complex enquiry that threatens to close in on Darac
himself. But allegiances past and present must be set aside to unravel a
tale of greed, deception and treachery that spans the social spectrum.
It is among the winding streets of his own neighbourhood in Nice's old
town, the Babazouk, that Darac faces his severest test yet.