'Twisty and riveting ... seamlessly blends insider tradecraft and a doomsday plot' David McCloskey The game is on ... and it's about to get deadly... Alec de Payns is an operative in the secretive Y Division of the DGSE, France's famed foreign intelligence service. He's the agent at the sharp end of clandestine missions, responsible for eliminating terror threats and disrupting weapons programmes. But at the back of his mind lurks the fear that haunts every operative with a family - what if they come after my children? When a routine mission goes fatally wrong, Alec is forced to confront the possibility that his close-knit team has been betrayed by one of their own. And now he's been tasked to investigate a secretive biological weapons facility in Pakistan. But with a traitor in the ranks, it's not just Alec in the firing line. Soon he'll be forced to confront his worst fear - and the potential destruction of Paris itself...