Nations go to war in a blare of trumpets and glory for high designs like defence of the smaller nation, democracy, and justice. Behind this rhetoric is the pain and anguish of slaughter, misery, starvation, and death so that rich men grow richer. Beyond Revanche exposes the grotesque injustice of a world war within which a small group of French policemen in the Deuxieme Bureau has to come to terms with the reality of destruction. Stretched to the limit they seek answers to the conundrum of who is actually controlling the war in France and beyond. The conspiracy they unearth threatens their very survival and that of France itself. Politics and injustice, sacrifice and conspiracy, violence and murder stalk the grand boulevards of Paris while the apparent ravings of a madman sheds a completely different light on events in the city and the politics of division.