An Inspector Lucas Rocco mystery

When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government minister, hiding out in France following a vicious coup. 

As if that wasn't enough to keep him occupied, Rocco discovers that there is a contract on his head taken out by an Algerian gang leader with a personal grudge against him. With time running out, to catch a murderer and to save his own life, Rocco will be tested like never before.

Picardie, 1963. A truck drops illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death. Inspector Lucas Rocco must trace his fellow travellers, but trawling the Algerian community for illegal arrivals is a sensitive and dangerous issue.