"Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy in Paris, watches helplessly as his friend, Max--an elderly bookstall owner--is abducted at gunpoint. In a race against time, Hugo enlists a beautiful and mysterious journalist, a semiretired CIA agent, and a reluctant police detective to help him negotiate political intrigue, police corruption, an escalating drug war, and the ghosts of Nazi collaboration that haunt some of Paris's most prominent citizens. The stakes are raised when other booksellers begin to disappear, their bodies found floating in the Seine, and unknown assassins target Hugo himself. As the clues begin to fall into place, Hugo follows them, quite literally, to the enemy's lair...just as the killer intended."--From publisher description.
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