Alec de Payns works for Y Division of the DGSE, the part of French foreign intelligence sent after terror networks and weapons programmes before they surface in public.
A routine operation ends badly enough that he has to consider what he has been avoiding: that someone inside his own tight team has sold them. The next assignment takes him to Pakistan, where a facility built around biological weapons is being kept well out of sight, and that is difficult enough without a traitor deciding what gets reported back to Paris. Tradecraft is handled in detail, and the novel keeps returning to the fear particular to an operative with children at home, where the risk does not stay at the office. The threat escalates until Paris itself is in question.
What drives the plot:
• Detailed tradecraft covering surveillance, cover identities and field operations
• An internal betrayal that narrows who can be trusted with each step
• A biological weapons investigation running across borders
• Family exposure used as constant pressure rather than a subplot
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